Student of Tim Keller

I've often shared that being a small town girl living in an uptown world often brings me moments of reckoning. Sometimes painful ones like I shared here and some like I had on Monday evening.

Working and attending Redeemer can also bring many conflicting emotions. To be frank, sometimes I wish I could just partake of Redeemer and not be staff. Sometimes I absolutely love what I'm doing here and count it as privilege and total grace in my life.

I think for the last 2 months or so I've been sitting and listening to Tim Keller preach/teach and really felt a new sense of being a student under a very respected teacher. I've been listening to TK from a distance for probably ten years but to be here now at such a pivotal time in Redeemer's history strikes me as special.  Working on Sundays can honestly cause me to listen with one ear and one eye open but I made a decision a few weeks ago to really prioritize being a student of TK and the other lead pastors with notebook in hand, soaking up what they are bringing each week. One thing I remember Tim saying recently is that God knows, "Your happiness is on the far side of your holiness."

This week we had an another opportunity to learn as several Redeemer ministries sponsored an event called Living Justly in an Unjust World and it was a real moment of personal grace for me knowing I'm right where I need to be...listening to and learning from TK on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A synopsis of this event can be found on the link below.

http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Who-Are-the-Poor-Tim-Keller-Talks-Justice-03-30-2011?offset=0&max=1