‘You only need to take seriously what the Bible has to say about the presence and power of remaining sin to know the great danger in allowing anyone to live separate from the essential ministry of the body of Christ, let alone the person who is charged with leading, guiding, and protecting that body as the representative of Christ. If Christ is the head of his body–and he is–then everything else is just body [the body of Christ]. The most influential pastor or ministry leader is a member of the body of Christ and therefore needs what the other members of the body need. There is no indication in the New Testament that the pastor is the exception to the rule of all that is said about the interconnectivity and necessary ministry of the body of Christ. What is true of the seemingly less significant members of the body is also true of the pastor. An intentional culture of pastoral separation and isolation is neither biblical nor spiritually healthy.’

-Paul David Tripp, Dangerous Calling, pp. 69-70 Kindle

(GSiV: Tripp; The Blessing of Humility; Ray Ortlund; Dane Ortlund; Jerry Bridges; Humility; Sanctification)