Authors

Jeremiah Chester

Jeremiah Chester

Princeton Theological Seminary
FTE Congregational Fellow ('09, '10)

Recent entries:

June 20, 2010

Two Minutes

LIVE from our 2010 Leaders in Ministry Conference in Boston, MA

I sat near the door waiting in anxious anticipation for the creative time to begin and then I heard, “make sure the story of yourself is told in under two minutes.“

As I waded through the muddy waters of my own life and listened to the stories of my group I discovered how long two minutes was. It was long enough to be moved purposelessness to conviction, long enough to be transformed by what before seemed like lonely isolated incidents, it was long enough to move from the hay of Bethlehem to the cross of Calvary. Two minutes was enough time to build a bond between two people who thought they had nothing in common.

Read More »