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People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.
Eugene H. Peterson
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Eugene H. Peterson
Age: 85 †
Born: 1932
Born: November 6
Died: 2018
Died: October 22
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Bible Translator
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Stanwood
Washington
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The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.
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We cannot be too careful about the words we use we start out using them and they end up using us.
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Exile (being where we don't want to be with people we don't want to be with) forces a decision: Will I focus my attention on what is wrong with the world and feel sorry for myself? Or will I focus my energies on how I can live at my best in this place I find myself?...'I will do my best with what is here.'
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When you are part of a megachurch you have no responsibility to anybody else.
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Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.
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Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with church. I say sooner.
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Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
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My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
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I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.
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It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.
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We've all met a certain type of spiritual person. She's a wonderful person. She loves the Lord. She prays and reads the Bible all the time. But all she thinks about is herself. She's not a selfish person. But she's always at the center of everything she's doing.
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The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
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The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.
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I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.
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Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
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The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.
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You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.
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