Will Willimon
North Carolina · connected South Carolina · born or raisedBorn 1946
American methodist bishop
- Born in South Carolina
- Born in Greenville
- Worked at Duke University
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One thing I learned from that was, I’m never again going to publish anything that I’m not willing to stand up for.
We work for a living God who is constantly on the move and who is determined to win back this world.
A preacher enters a conversation that has been going on between God and God’s people. You contribute to that conversation with your sermon, and then you spend the rest of the week seeing where God takes the conversation from there.
Jesus Christ is busy speaking for himself. He is busy intruding and revealing.
[I]f you get negative feedback, congratulations. You evidently have a very good relationship with this person. It takes a lot of courage to criticize a preacher.