{"id":8594,"date":"2020-06-26T11:42:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedisciplemaker.org\/?p=8594"},"modified":"2020-06-26T11:42:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T16:42:12","slug":"how-to-stay-centered-and-faithful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2020\/06\/how-to-stay-centered-and-faithful\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stay Centered and Faithful"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size:10px\"><em>The following is an excerpt from&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Nkn2km\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Letters to a Young Pastor<\/a><em> in which Eugene Peterson, bestselling author and translator of&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2NljzlD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Message<\/a><em> Bible, reflects on pastoral ministry in a series of letters to his son, Eric.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Dear Eric,<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Another Timothy letter. We are leaving in the morning for Bel Air and Christ Our King for a few days. As I have been preparing myself, both in what I will say and preach but also emotionally; I have thought a lot of those years\u2014so formative. Interestingly, mostly what I feel is a kind of messiness: What a lot of stumbling around, fumbling the ball, losing my way went on through those years. It is amazing to me now that anything came of it.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Which leads me to reflect on the uniqueness of being a pastor\u2014being a pastor is unique. Not better, not privileged, not anything special, but unique in society as a whole\u2014and also (but not quite so much) in the company of the people of God. Not much transfers from other vocational roles to who we are, what we do.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>One aspect of that uniqueness, I think, is that we make far more mistakes in our line of work than other so-called professionals. If physicians and engineers and lawyers and military officers made as many mistakes as we do in our line of work, they would be out on the street in no time. It amazes me still how much of the time I simply don\u2019t know what I am doing, don\u2019t know what to say, don\u2019t know what the next move is. The temptation in that state of being is to become competent at something or other\u2014master something or someone. Unfortunately, there are many opportunities, many \u201cways of escape\u201d in which we can exercise and develop areas of administrative or leadership or scholarly or programmatic competencies in the church.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-coblocks-click-to-tweet\"><p class=\"wp-block-coblocks-click-to-tweet__text\">It amazes me still how much of the time I simply don\u2019t know what I am doing, don\u2019t know what to say, don\u2019t know what the next move is.<\/p><a class=\"wp-block-coblocks-click-to-tweet__twitter-btn has-button-color\" style=\"background-color:#d19f2a\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?&amp;text=It%20amazes%20me%20still%20how%20much%20of%20the%20time%20I%20simply%20don%E2%80%99t%20know%20what%20I%20am%20doing%2C%20don%E2%80%99t%20know%20what%20to%20say%2C%20don%E2%80%99t%20know%20what%20the%20next%20move%20is.&amp;url=https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/how-to-stay-centered-and-faithful\/&amp;via=NavPress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tweet<\/a><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p>But I had a sense much of the time (but not by any means continuously) that \u201cnot knowing what I am doing\u201d is more or less what it feels like when I am \u201ctrusting in God\u201d and \u201cfollowing Jesus.\u201d This position, in which the church has placed us by ordaining us to this work, means giving witness to what we don\u2019t know much about, living into the mystery of salvation and providence.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>I just thought of a phrase that I have sometimes lingered on: \u201cBlessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after false gods.\u201d The \u201cproud\u201d for me in this context are just those people who look like they know what they\u2019re doing\u2014who are competent and recognized as such, who have an honored position in society and among their colleagues. And going \u201castray after false gods\u201d amounts to living in response to something manageable, turning my vocation into a job that I can get good at. I\u2019m probably reading more into this text than it warrants, but it has given me a couple of images (\u201cproud\u201d and \u201castray\u201d) that set off little alarm signals when I sense that I am betraying or avoiding the uniqueness of \u201cpastor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Nkn2km\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/PetersonLetters_AMustRead-1024x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8574\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>The odd thing, the surprising thing from this perspective as I reflect on those thirty years, is that I have almost no sense of achievement\u2014what I remember is all the little detours into \u201cproud\u201d and \u201castray\u201d that I experienced, the near misses, the staggering recoveries or semi-recoveries of who I was and what I was about. In a couple of days, we are going to be back in that place, and everybody is going to be celebrating those years\u2014they\u2019ll have no idea how precarious it felt at the time, how many faithless stretches there were, how uncelebrative it felt for so much of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>In retrospect now, the two things that preserved for me the uniqueness of \u201cpastor\u201d were worship and marriage\/family. I knew in my gut that that act of worship every week was what kept me centered and that nothing could be permitted to dilute it or distract from it. And I knew that marriage\/family were the only hope I had of staying grounded, faithful, relational, learning the practice of love: Jan and you kids provided the conditions in which I could be a pastor.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Maybe those things don\u2019t make \u201cpastor\u201d unique\u2014everybody has to deal with them. But we are very public in what we do in relation to God and love. And that, if not unique, is at least intense, providing occasion for either bluffing our way or constructing a way of life that is \u201ccompetent\u201d but quite apart from trusting God or braving the intimacies of love. Everybody sees and is influenced either for good or bad by the seriousness and reverence in which we order our response to God (the showcase for it is Sunday worship); and they all notice the way we live with our spouse and kids\u2014they see or don\u2019t see forgiveness and grace and blessing and patience in all our gestures and offhand remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-coblocks-click-to-tweet\"><p class=\"wp-block-coblocks-click-to-tweet__text\">Much of the time \u201cnot knowing what I am doing\u201d is more or less what it feels like when I am \u201ctrusting in God\u201d and \u201cfollowing Jesus.\u201d<\/p><a class=\"wp-block-coblocks-click-to-tweet__twitter-btn has-button-color\" style=\"background-color:#d19f2a\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?&amp;text=Much%20of%20the%20time%20%E2%80%9Cnot%20knowing%20what%20I%20am%20doing%E2%80%9D%20is%20more%20or%20less%20what%20it%20feels%20like%20when%20I%20am%20%E2%80%9Ctrusting%20in%20God%E2%80%9D%20and%20%E2%80%9Cfollowing%20Jesus.%E2%80%9D&amp;url=https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/how-to-stay-centered-and-faithful\/&amp;via=NavPress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tweet<\/a><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p>And the daily, inescapable reality is that neither one of these areas, worship or family, are we ever in control of, or can manage; if we try, we end up being self-conscious, substituting our ego and performance and reputation for the very things we are committed to doing\u2014worshipping God, loving our spouse and kids.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>I wish you and Lynn and Drew and Lindsay and Sadie were going back with us this weekend. I\u2019d like to show you off. I think you might make me feel competent in that place for once.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/PETERSON-Eugene-Signature-e1590699025264-300x145.png\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is PETERSON-Eugene-Signature-e1590699025264-300x145.png\" width=\"150\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author\"><figure class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__avatar\"><img class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__avatar-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/PETERSON_Eric-Author-Photo-bordered.png\" alt=\"Eric Peterson\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__content\"><span class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__name\">Eric Peterson<\/span><p class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__biography\">You&#8217;ve been reading with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/tag\/eric-peterson\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Eric Peterson<\/strong><\/a>, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Nkn2km\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>Letters to a Young Pastor<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3etDwlZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>Letters to a Young Congregation<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. <em>Letters to a Young Pastor<\/em> features a series of letters from Eugene Peterson, bestselling author and translator of <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2NljzlD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>The Message <\/em><\/strong><\/a>Bible<em>,<\/em> to Eric (his son) in which he reflects on pastoral ministry. Follow the links to engage further or to read the first chapters for free.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/tag\/eric-peterson\/\">More from Eric<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Nkn2km\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/PETERSON-Letters-Books-3D-1024x650.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8363\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:10px\"><strong>Sources<\/strong><br \/>[I] Eugene\u2019s reflections in these letters occasionally made their way into his later books. A few paragraphs here would eventually be adapted for his memoir The Pastor: A Memoir (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2011), 315. <br \/>[II] Psalm 40:4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from&nbsp;Letters to a Young Pastor in which Eugene Peterson, bestselling author and translator of&nbsp;The Message Bible, reflects on pastoral ministry in a series of letters to his son, Eric. Dear Eric, Another Timothy letter. 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