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• American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.

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  Christian, Lying, Culture

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. August 12, 2011.

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• Repentance is a realization that what God wants from you and what you want from God are not going to be achieved by doing the same old things, thinking the same old thoughts. Repentance is a decision to follow Jesus Christ and become his pilgrim in the path of peace. Repentance is the most practical of all words and the most practical of all acts. It is a feet-on-the-ground-kind-of-word. It puts a person in touch with the reality that God creates.

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  Jesus, Reality, Thinking

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• The poor are not a problem to be solved but a people to join.

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  People, Problem, Poor

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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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  Bible, God, Faith

  Eugene H. Peterson (2009). “Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best”, p.16, InterVarsity Press

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• Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in another part of the world must lower his. The worldwide crisis of hunger that we face today is a result of that method of pursuing happiness. Industrialized nations acquire appetites for more and more luxuries and higher and higher standards of living, and increasing numbers of people are made poor and hungry. It doesn't have to be that way.

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  Luxury, Numbers, People

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.118, InterVarsity Press

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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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  Jesus, People, Giving

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

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• Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.

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  Adventure, Goodness, Pursuit

  Eugene H. Peterson (2009). “Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best”, p.14, InterVarsity Press

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• The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.

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  Latin, Humble, Humility

  Eugene H. Peterson (2008). “Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology”, p.98, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

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  Stories, Hospitality

  Eugene H. Peterson (2008). “Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology”, p.22, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

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  Plot, Stories

  Eugene H. Peterson, Peter Santucci (2005). “Eat This Book: Study Guide”, p.18, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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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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  Ordinary, Creation, Sabbath

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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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  Life, Christian, Biblical

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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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  Art, Imagination, Essentials

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• If we don't understand how metaphor works we will misunderstand most of what we read in the Bible. No matter how carefully we parse our Hebrew and Greek sentences, no matter how precisely we use our dictionaries and trace our etymologies, no matter how exactly we define the words on the page, if we do not appreciate the way a metaphor works we will never comprehend the meaning of the text.

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  Appreciate, Greek, Use

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• The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.

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  Sunday, Imagination, Important

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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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  Sorry, People, Focus

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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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  Growing Up, Maturity, Church

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

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• 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.

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  People, Pedestal, Easy

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• Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are, as he shows us, the instruments of joy, the way into mature Christian spirituality and abundant life.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Brother

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• 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.

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  Religious, Jesus, Sex

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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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  Wine, Water, Use

  Eugene H. Peterson (1997). “Leap over a wall: earthy spirituality for everyday Christians”

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• The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.

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  Tasks, Smooth, Prophet

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• I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.

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  Believe, Thinking, Use

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• Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures.

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  Helping Others, Suffering, Way

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

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  Responsibility

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

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