Perfection vs Progress

How abiding in Christ as my perfect righteousness empowers disciples to abandon perfection while pursuing progress.

Photo by Matt Howard

As I reflect on the past five weeks of sabbatical between my last Sunday as a local church pastor (May 30) and my first Monday as a full-time seminary professor (July 5), I find myself grateful… and anxious.

I’m so glad to have had the opportunity to pastor for all these years and am looking forward to leading the DMin program at Met…