Master Your Thoughts
… Before this week I was unfamiliar with Dr. Alicia Britt Chole. She preached all three of our morning chapel services during our Doctor of Ministry Intensive this week. Her topic was pastoral integrity. She was, I dare say, prophetic. In fact, she put on some great big, steel-toed combat boots and began to step on some toes. She wasn’t mean about it. She was just honest. In the tradition of those great prophets of Israel, she told the truth, and she didn’t mince words doing it.
Dr. Chole spoke of the numerous pastoral scandals, usually involving sex, that have beset the church in recent years. It’s easy to point the finger at those well-known pastors who have fallen from grace and into the headlines. “How can they do that?” Continue Reading….