"The task of the minister is to guard the great questions." Barry Taylor
I instantly liked this quote, and saw several others responding with an "oh, yeah!" sort of look. But it keeps bouncing around in my head, and I'm not so sure I agree with it. I've persistently tried not to be a guardian in ministry, except perhaps a guardian of those who cannot guard themselves; certainly not a guardian of ideas, or questions. Information, ideas, questions...these are things to be shared, not guarded. But somehow, something about the quote still catches in me.
Those of you who resonated with this comment: what do you think it means? What is it to guard great questions? What are great questions?
In seeing other people's recollections of this quote, some of them have variations, such as "leader" instead of "minister." It's entirely possible that I misheard or misrecorded this.
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