pastors often don’t know what they’re getting themselves into. (Just in case you are wondering, I have no statistical basis for that “ten or twelve,” but it sounds about right.) Now to the theme of this book: The pastor is called to nurture a culture of Christoformity. One of this generation’s best scholars on the apostle Paul, Michael Gorman, has made the word cruciformity popular, and I’ve learned much from him. So, my use of Christoformity stands on his shoulders, and by
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