Len Evans » Quotes http://lenevans.net Looking our from my little place Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:45:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Nouwen on Teaching Spiritual Formation http://lenevans.net/2010/01/nouwen-on-teaching-spiritual-formation/ http://lenevans.net/2010/01/nouwen-on-teaching-spiritual-formation/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:34:16 +0000 Len http://lenevans.net/?p=241 “We are not asked to teach a discipline like mathematics, physics, history or languages, but we are called to make our own faith available to others as the source of learning. To be a teacher means indeed to lay down your life for your friends, to become a ‘martyr’ in the original sense of witness. To be a teacher means to offer your own faith experience, your loneliness and intimacy, your doubts and hopes, your failures and successes to your students as a context in which they can struggle with their own quest for meaning. To be a teacher means to have the same boldness as Paul, who said to the Corinthians: ‘Take me as a model as I take Christ’ (1 Cor. 11:1). To be a teacher means to say as those who want to learn what Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Come and see’ (John 1:39)” – Henri J.M. Nouwen (cited in Wounded Prophet by Michael Ford, 106-107)

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As saints we belong to that huge network of God’s people that shines like a multitude of stars in the dark sky of the universe.

Henri Nouwen

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