“For nearly a thousand years, it was the Western church’s principal guide to pastoral counseling. Charlemagne’s adviser Alcuin recommended it to the archbishop of York in 796 with these words: ‘Wherever you go, let the pastoral book of St. Gregory be your companion. Read and re-read it often, that in it you may learn to know yourself and your work, that you may have before your eyes how you ought to live and teach’” (Mark Noll, Turning Points, 115).
Friday, December 31, 2010
Quotation Friday: On Gregory the Great's "Pastoral Rule"
“For nearly a thousand years, it was the Western church’s principal guide to pastoral counseling. Charlemagne’s adviser Alcuin recommended it to the archbishop of York in 796 with these words: ‘Wherever you go, let the pastoral book of St. Gregory be your companion. Read and re-read it often, that in it you may learn to know yourself and your work, that you may have before your eyes how you ought to live and teach’” (Mark Noll, Turning Points, 115).
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"Timothy's own authority was thus seen to be secondary, both to Scripture and to the apostle [Paul]. All Christian teachers occupy the same subordinate position as Timothy did. They will be wise, therefore, especially if they are young, to demonstrate both their submission to the authority of Scripture and their conscientious integrity in expounding it, so that their teaching is seen to be not theirs but the Word of God." -John R.W. Stott, From: Guard the Truth, The Message of 1 Timothy & Titus
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