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Pastor Paul: Nurturing a Culture of Christoformity in the Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

Being a pastor is a complicated calling. Pastors are often pulled in multiple directions and must “become all things to all people” (1 Cor. 9:22). What does the New Testament say (or not say) about the pastoral calling? And what can we learn about it from the apostle Paul? According to popular New Testament scholar Scot McKnight, pastoring must begin first and foremost with spiritual formation,...

Christoformity: to love another is to yearn for mutual Christoformity. This deserves a little expansion. The heart of the Old Testament’s “law” is the Shema, and the heart of the Shema is to love God with one’s heart, soul, and strength (Jesus adds “mind” in Mark 12:28–32). What is perhaps not noticed is how close love and obedience are in the Bible, not least because the covenant arrangement, after all, is borrowed from the ancient suzerainty treaty.33 Jon Levenson, in a monumentally important study
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