Paul O. Wendland

It rocked me.

I think it was Paul Wendland had this beautiful essay about how when you're preaching, you are not up there as one without authority, right? You're up there to declare.

And I was 23 years old, like, what? I'm trying to make the argument and persuade in some senses, right? And just that concept was so foreign to me, not because I wasn't raised in a Lutheran church, but because I'm swimming in water that says every idea is one among many to be chosen from.

Yeah.