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Originally published in Born to Preach: Essays in Honor of the Ministry of Henry & Ella Mitchell, Samuel K. Roberts, ed. (Judson Press, 2000), 6370.
In the Gospel of Mark, the apostles go looking for Jesus Christ because he has withdrawn from them and gone to be alone. Dr. Nathan Dell looks at the necessity for pastors to withdraw to their solitary places. He counsels ministers about how to make intentional time for quiet, prayer, and study and extols the benefits they will receive from time alone with the Scriptures and the presence of God.
NATHAN DELL, MDiv, is instructor of homiletics at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University. He served as pastor of the Woodville Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia, for thirty-two years (1964-1996).