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There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.
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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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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Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?
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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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If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.
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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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A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.
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Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.
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When you are part of a megachurch you have no responsibility to anybody else.
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The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.
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I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
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The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.
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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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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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Love is not a word that describes my feelings it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.
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