Lead Pastor - New Life East
Host - Essential Church Podcast
Author - All Flame (Sep 2020), Streams in the Wasteland (Sep 2022)
Doctoral Student - WTS
Jul 2, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
One of my favorite sayings of the desert fathers. From Abba Benjamin:
"Walk in the royal way, measuring the landmarks without meannness."
I think about this one often. To me it is a call to pay attention to the events of my life, and of the world around me with the eye of love.
It is easy to rush to anger or fear or judgment concerning the things that happen to us and around us. But Benjamin calls us to a different way. To "measure the landmarks without meanness."
Far too often we decide ahead of time what a thing is, what it means, or what it will be.
May 30, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Doing some research on Rich Mullins for my book.
This guy. I'm not sure evangelicalism realized what it had on its hands when he was alive - a living, breathing, 20th century desert father, embracing of the essential poverty of the human condition; "all flame" as a result.
I mean listen to this. From an interview towards the end of his life:
"How do you know when God is calling you? Well, for me, for years I tried to avoid loneliness, because it hurt too much. Now I am beginning to recognize that maybe that's what it feels like when God calls..."
