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If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. it's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.
-Eugene H. Peterson
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If People Don't Know Their Pastor, It's

Eugene H. Peterson
If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. it's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.
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