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Eugene Peterson

@eugenehpeterson

pastor, scholar, author, and poet. Unofficial account

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If pastoral work is to represent the gospel & the develop the life of faith, it must learn to be at him in the everyday things of life.

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Pastoral work is not merely a matter of putting plastic flowers in people’s drab lives — a well intentioned attempt to brighten a bad scene.

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A Christian believes everything, especially everything that looks like wreckage, is material God is using to make a praising life.

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Christians believe that the most significant thing that happens is that we are no longer dismembered but remembered into the body of Christ.

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North American culture does not offer conditions in which to live vocationally as a pastor. We are pressured to be religious entrepreneurs.

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Give the loss of cultural and ecclesiastical consensus on how to be a pastor, none of us is sure of what we are doing much of the time.

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Rather than being known for “getting things done” pastors should be known for “what’s going on right now” between men and women and God.

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Pastor, you may not always be in the lions’ den, but you are always preaching to a congregations with people facing wild beasts.