{"id":3466,"date":"2014-09-01T09:26:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T15:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2014-09-01T13:49:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T19:49:15","slug":"monday-morning-confessional-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2014\/09\/monday-morning-confessional-106.html","title":{"rendered":"Monday Morning Confessional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"shrink<\/a><\/p>\n

I confess that Shrink<\/a> is set to release tomorrow. So I\u2019m probably going to talk a lot about ideas from the book in the coming months. But before I get to that, I have a few acknowledgments to make. In today\u2019s confessional,\u00a0I feel compelled to\u00a0say:<\/p>\n

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To the pastors of small churches everywhere: I\u2019ve been thinking about you guys every day for the past three years. I wrote this book for you (us).<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you to Paul Raushenbush, who lets\u00a0me write at The Huffington Post<\/em> and who is so ably carrying on the legacy of a truly great family. Thank you to Ryan Pazdur at Zondervan, for working to bring this project to fruition, and Verlyn Verbrugge for\u00a0leaning\u00a0key concepts until I shored them up or they fell over. Thanks to\u00a0David Conn for the interior,\u00a0FaceOut Studio<\/a>\u00a0for the cover, Nathan Kroese & Karen Campbell<\/a> for helping promote the\u00a0ideas in this book, and everyone else at Zondervan for supporting this project.\u00a0I\u2019m really grateful, you guys. Thank you so much.<\/p>\n

Thank you to Scot McKnight for writing the foreword, and to Stanley Hauerwas, Walter Brueggemann, Christopher Smith, David Fitch, and Erin Wathen for contributing blurbs.<\/p>\n

There are many other folks I need to thank\u2013my church, family, and friends\u2013so please read\u00a0the full acknowledgements in the book for all that. Mostly I want to thank Kristin and the boys. So I\u2019m reposting the acknowledgements I wrote for them:<\/p>\n

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I save my final thanks for Kristin, Nicholas, and Lewis Suttle. You guys have my heart. They need to make up a better word, because love <\/span>just doesn\u2019t seem like enough. Nicholas and Lewis, it is a such a dream to be your dad. You are constantly making life beautiful. I pray that you know how much your parents love you; that you will be blessed for the time you let me take away from you in order to write; that you will always be good friends; that you will learn how to listen to your own life; that you will never know a single moment that you don\u2019t feel a part of the people of God; and that you will always have the courage to run \u201cfurther up and further in!\u201d<\/p>\n

Kristin, you still take my breath away. You keep this family together with your ceaseless grace and love. I might be the voice, but you are the beating heart of this family. The life we\u2019ve built together \u2014 you, me, the boys, this church, these friendships \u2014 it feels so rich and substantial, like ballast for the ship, the weight of which allows us to hang the sails out there and chase the horizon. I cannot see the future, but I dream about it. And when I do, I dream that our days will stretch out like the ocean just as far as the eye can see. They roll and tumble and flow\u2014filled with love and music, laughter and art, pain and grit, sons and daughters, life and death\u2014then they soften into each other, and then into eternity. And when forever comes to swallow up time, when the earth and sky coming crashing into the sea, and you and I and everyone we love washes up on the other side, I know this for sure: You will have been my favorite part of this life; the truest gift I have been given \u2026 for which I am overwhelmed with gratitude.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

One more day. I\u2019m so excited.<\/p>\n

Okay friends, that\u2019s my confession. Now for yours\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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