Society strives to make all things, especially our lives, move compulsively faster and faster in order to get more work accomplished, gather more income, assimilate more information, fulfill more obligations at home, and along the way lose more weight. … The Four Gospels never depict Jesus in a hurry. Never. This drives contemporary disciples nuts, since we’re hustling all of the time and expect that surely the Savior of the world can keep up with us. But the question of the Gospel is this: Can we move as slowly as Jesus to see what God is doing? … The pastor lives by the belief that Jesus Christ holds all things together, and it is for this Savior that the harried souls in the pews truly yearn. All their busyness and distracting entertainments were never more than unconscious techniques for coping with that yearning. … So there they sit, frantic and frazzled, but daring to hope that there really is a sacred Word that can fill their deep yearning. The name of that Word is Jesus Christ, and the minor poet gets to reveal his mysterious presence every Sunday.
M. Craig Barnes
The Pastor As Minor Poet
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