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When work reduced to duties

But I do it [running a church] in the same spirit that I, along with my wife, run our house. There are many essential things we routinely do, often (but not always) with joy. But running a house is not what we do. What we do is build a home, develop in marriage, raise children, practice hospitality, pursue lives of work and play. It is reducing pastoral work to institutional duties that I object to, not the duties themselves, which I galdly share with others in the church.
(p.59)

Eugene Peterson, The Gift — Reflections on Christian Ministry, p.59

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