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In 1959 Joseph Sittler delivered the Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching at Yale. In an essay entitled “The Maceration of the Minister” Sittler said,
The pastor, in private and imperiled existence, must fight for wholeness and depth against erosion. By a sheer violent effort of will he or she must seek to become the calling, submit life and self to be shaped from the center outward. The minister need not be slapped into uncorrelated fragments of function; need not become a weary and unstructured functionary of a vague, busy moralism; need not see the visions and energies and focused loyalty of his or her calling run, shallowly like spilled water, down a multitude of slopes. |
The Sabbath Project is intended, from start to finish, to encourage leaders in the “fight for wholeness and depth against erosion.” It is the deliberate creation of places and times to “submit life and self to be shaped from the center outward."
In the beautiful invitation and promise of Isaiah is the essence of what The Sabbath Project is about.
"In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and trust shall be your strength."
Peace to all of you
Lee Goodwin +
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