Pastor John

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Brian N. Tebbutt. Pastor John

Pastor John

Table of Contents

Foreword

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction 1

Introduction 2

John 1

John 2

John 3

John 4

Bibliography

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A Practical Interpretation of St. John’s Gospel

Brian N. Tebbutt

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Sharing is a distinct activity. It involves talking about oneself. It is not discussion of ideas. It is a specific discipline, easily learnt but hard to practice consistently, needing constant watchfulness over oneself, one’s thought about oneself and the language to express it. That sounds pretty bleak, but it is the richest form of communication. It is vastly more than the cerebral communication of ideas, though precision in ideas is not discounted. It is full of affect. It is the royal road to truth and comfort in the truth.

I started my first “Care and Share Group” in 1973, long before banks became “listening” and co-ops (a series of grocery and bank cooperatives in the UK) became “caring-sharing”! Training in Clinical Theology Association workshops and growth groups alerted me to a different style of meeting. I was the minister of a large Methodist church of over five hundred members; I was attending a lot of meetings, but began to feel I was not “meeting” people. I was usefully busy, leading a hectic life, with much pastoral visiting, and realized that there was no way I could care for everyone. People had to care for each other and be trained for it. The more insight and skill they had, the better. So I began to offer pastoral training courses, and continued to do so throughout my ministry! The core of the training was a new way of talking and listening to each other.

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