Topics:<\/b> Busyness; Mentoring; Rest; Spiritual Disciplines; Spirituality; Time; Work<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> 2 Corinthians 7:1; Galatians 5:22\u201323; 1 Timothy 4:7; Hebrews 4:1\u201311<\/p>\n
Not long after moving to the Chicago area to serve as teaching pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, John Ortberg called a friend to ask for spiritual direction.<\/p>\n
\u201cI described the pace of life in my current ministry,\u201d Ortberg writes. \u201cThe church where I serve tends to move at a fast clip. I also told him about our rhythms of family life: we are in the van-driving, soccer-league, piano-lesson, school-orientation-night years. I told him about the present condition of my heart, as best I could discern it. What did I need to do, I asked him, to be spiritually healthy?\u201d<\/p>\n
After a long pause, the friend said, \u201cYou must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOK, I\u2019ve written that one down,\u201d I told him, a little impatiently. \u201cThat\u2019s a good one. Now, what else is there?\u201d Ortberg had many things to do, and this was a long-distance call, so he was anxious to cram as many units of spiritual wisdom into the least amount of time possible.<\/p>\n
There was another long pause.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is nothing else,\u201d the friend said. \u201cYou must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortberg eventually got it. \u201cI have concluded that my life and the well-being of the people I serve depends on following his prescription, for hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day,\u201d he said. \u201cHurry destroys souls.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014John Ortberg, \u201cRuthlessly Eliminate Hurry,\u201d LeadershipJournal.net (July 4, 2002)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Topics: Busyness; Mentoring; Rest; Spiritual Disciplines; Spirituality; Time; Work References: 2 Corinthians 7:1; Galatians 5:22\u201323; 1 Timothy 4:7; Hebrews 4:1\u201311 Not long after moving to the Chicago area to serve as teaching pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, John Ortberg called a friend to ask for spiritual direction. \u201cI described the pace of life in … Continue reading “HURRY
\n NOT”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}