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Eugene H Peterson

Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people’s lives, and you ruin your own life.

– Eugene H Peterson

Eugene H Peterson

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

Eugene H Peterson

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.

– Eugene H Peterson

Eugene H Peterson

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

Eugene H Peterson

When you are part of a megachurch, you have no responsibility to anybody else.

– Eugene H Peterson

Eugene H Peterson

I get asked, ‘What do you miss most about being a pastor?’ I think it’s the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there’s an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.

– Eugene H Peterson

Eugene H Peterson

Spirituality is no different from what we’ve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It’s just ordinary stuff.

– Eugene H Peterson

Eugene H Peterson

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.

– Eugene H Peterson

Eugene H Peterson

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We’re so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what’s going on, and listen.

– Eugene H Peterson

Eugene H Peterson

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.

– Eugene H Peterson

Eugene H Peterson

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

– Eugene H Peterson

Eugene H Peterson

If people don’t know their pastor, it’s easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It’s also easy for pastors, who don’t know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.

– Eugene H Peterson

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