Pastors, Press the Boundaries of What is Possible

Easter keeps reminding us pastors that the church is the result of something that God in Jesus Christ has done, not something we have done...We therefore ought to press the boundaries of what is possible and what is impossible in ministry. We ought to keep working the edges as if miracles were not miraculous at all but simply typical of a God who loves to raise the dead. We ought to minister in such a reckless, utterly-dependent-upon-God sort of way that, if God has not vindicated the peculiar way of Jesus by raising him from the dead, then our ministry is ridiculous.-William Willimon, Character and Calling