meditatio at the water's edge

I sat at the Bean Tree Bistro with my friend John today. We talked about what "pastoring" is supposed to look like. Among the things we came up with, we thought that it should involve true spiritual friendships (which require significant amounts of time with a few people), an unhurried life (to which you may refer to Eugene Peterson's "The Contemplative Pastor"), and the idea of pastors having pastors (are we not also sheep?).

I referred to some ideas I wrote for a leadership workshop I did with some of my favorite people in the world (my family at the Ancona Church of Christ, Ancona, IL), called Leading Like Jesus. You can check that out if you like to get a sense of some more of what John and I talked about. I would write more here, but I'm too lazy right now.