"The main function of the parish minister is to bless the people in the name of God. That very simple instruction has never left me.
I was also taught very much that when you go into parish ministry it is not you who are the pastor because ultimately the pastor is Jesus Christ. All we do is share in the ministry of Jesus Christ, and that is the highest privilege. Those are in a sense very simple guiding principles, the structures by which I try to live."
~ Dr. Iain Torrance, The Princeton Theological Review, Spring 2005, Vol. XI, Number 2, p. 24.
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