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You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.

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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
Theologian
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University Teacher
Stanwood
Washington
Shine
Generous
Shining
Lives
Light

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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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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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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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That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
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Pity can be nearsighted and condescending shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
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The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
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Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.
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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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Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. Its just ordinary stuff.
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It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.
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All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.
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The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness and lust, and with so many excellent disguises to keep such ignobility from being found out and called to account.
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People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.
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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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If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring 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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Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
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Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God it whets our appetite.
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You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.
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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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