Great reminder for me as our church is looking at classic business consolidation practices and moving toward an app for directory, groups, giving, etc. Thanks, Joseph.
Nice! Your reflection at the end reminded me of Zac Hicks' The Worship Pastor. Each chapter envisions the worship pastor as a different role - church lover, corporate mystic, theological dietician, prayer leader, war general, caregiver, curator, liturgical architect, and even mortician (to name a few).
That’s really lovely. Erickson does a wonderful job unpacking appropriate and inappropriate uses of metaphor, and how far we should take them. Which is really helpful when thinking about how far we can take things.
How Eugene Peterson-ese of him to write on this topic. Did he Wendall Berry much? :-)
Totally 😮💨 it’s really a great read
Great reminder for me as our church is looking at classic business consolidation practices and moving toward an app for directory, groups, giving, etc. Thanks, Joseph.
I'm glad it was helpful :)
I read this with interest. NIce to find a wealth of revealed metaphors seemingly unused in large part by the Church, at least in my acquaintance.
I think “wealth” is the right way of talking about it 😋
Nice! Your reflection at the end reminded me of Zac Hicks' The Worship Pastor. Each chapter envisions the worship pastor as a different role - church lover, corporate mystic, theological dietician, prayer leader, war general, caregiver, curator, liturgical architect, and even mortician (to name a few).
That’s really lovely. Erickson does a wonderful job unpacking appropriate and inappropriate uses of metaphor, and how far we should take them. Which is really helpful when thinking about how far we can take things.