Eugene H. Peterson Quotes About Church

• 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.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Growing Up, Maturity, Church

  Eugene H. Peterson (2010). “Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Religious, Jesus, Sex

• 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.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, People, Giving

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. May 13, 2011.

• 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

  Christian, Church, Problem

• La espiritualidad no es diferente de lo que hemos estado haciendo durante dos mil años simplemente yendo a la iglesia y recibiendo los sacramentos, siendo bautizados, aprendiendo a rezar y leyendo las Escrituras correctamente. Son cosas normales.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Lectura, Años, Dos

• People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Loyalty, Thinking, People

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