{"id":862,"date":"2009-09-28T18:43:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T00:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=862"},"modified":"2009-09-28T18:43:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T00:43:30","slug":"bonhoeffer-on-the-temptations-of-the-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"Bonhoeffer on the Temptations of the Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have to say that I haven’t been in God’s Word as much as I should be in recent months.\u00a0 I use a wonderful devotional entitled Treasury of Daily Prayer<\/a> by Concordia Publishing House<\/a>.\u00a0 I don’t really have an excuse.\u00a0 I could say that I’ve been busy, I’ve had too much going on, not enough time in a day, etc.\u00a0 There really is no good excuse.\u00a0 So tomorrow morning, I will get myself back into God’s Word.\u00a0 What good is a pastor if he is not in God’s Word as much as he can be?\u00a0 Here’s a wonderful quote from Bonhoeffer on the subject.<\/p>\n

The life of the pastor completes itself in reading, meditation, prayer, and struggle.\u00a0 The means is the word of Scripture with which everything begins and to which everything returns.\u00a0 We read Scripture in order that our hearts may be moved.\u00a0 It will lead us into prayer for the church, for brothers and sisters in the faith, for our work, and for our own soul.\u00a0 Prayer leads us into the world in which we must keep the faith.\u00a0 Where Scripture, prayer, and keeping the faith exist, temptation will always find its way in.\u00a0 Temptation is the sign that our hearing, prayer, and faith have touched down in reality.\u00a0 There is no escape from temptation except by giving ourselves to renewed reading and meditation.\u00a0 So the circle is complete.\u00a0 We will not often be permitted to see the fruits of our labors; but through the joy of community with brothers and sisters who offer us spiritual care, we become certain of the proclamation and the ministry. <\/span>–Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Spiritual Care<\/em> (Fortress Press, 1985), p. 69<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I have to say that I haven’t been in God’s Word as much as I should be in recent months.\u00a0 I use a wonderful devotional entitled Treasury of Daily Prayer by Concordia Publishing House.\u00a0 I don’t really have an excuse.\u00a0 I could say that I’ve been busy, I’ve had too much going on, not enough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7140,145868,755,76133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","category-lutheran","category-quotes","category-treasury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}