10 Lessons Learned From Eugene Peterson This Year About Pastoral Work

I found this at Scribo Facio Noto.

1. Pastoral Work does not look "busy."
2. The hard work of a pastor is done in the quiet of study and prayer.
3. Most pastors are pragmatists because they have never seen any other kind of pastoral work done.
4. You will never get the job of pastoral work down to a science.
5. Read novels as a part of your ministry.
6. How-to sermons are rarely - if ever - helpful.
7. Don't listen to the conventional wisdom.
8. It is so normal for bullies to fill our pulpits we can no longer recognize the problem.
9. Pastors should not seek to be part of the super-spiritual crowd but seek to be normal - only more so.
10. God and his work in Christ are our subject.