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Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ (Spiritual Theology #5) QUOTES

Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ (Spiritual Theology #5) QUOTES

1 " 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 , Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ (Spiritual Theology #5)

2 " Individualism is the growth-stunting, maturity-inhibiting habit of understanding growth as an isolated self-project. Individualism is self-ism with a swagger. The individualist is the person who is convinced that he or she can serve God without dealing with God. "

― Eugene H. Peterson , Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ (Spiritual Theology #5)

3 " Maturity cannot be hurried, programmed, or tinkered with. There are no steroids available for growing up in Christ more quickly. Impatient shortcuts land us in the dead ends of immaturity. "

― Eugene H. Peterson , Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ (Spiritual Theology #5)

4 " The contrast between world and church in this regard is stark: American culture is doing its dead level best with its celebrities, consumerism, and violence to keep us in a perpetually arrested state of adolescence. Yet all the while the church is quietly and without false advertising immersing us in the conditions of becoming mature to the measure of the full stature of Christ. "

― Eugene H. Peterson , Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ (Spiritual Theology #5)

5 " There are no shortcuts in growing up. The path to maturity is long and arduous. Hurry is no virtue. There is no secret formula squirreled away that will make it easier or quicker. But stories help. "

― Eugene H. Peterson , Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ (Spiritual Theology #5)

6 " I don't find pastors and professors, for the most part, very interested in matters of formation in holiness. They have higher profile things to tend to. "

― Eugene H. Peterson , Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ (Spiritual Theology #5)

7 " It is an old habit among us, a habit subsidized by the devil, to depersonalize, to abstract, to generalize not only our language with or about God but also our language with and about one another. It is a bad habit. We avoid the personal in order to avoid responsibility. We find any way we think we can get by with to get control of God, our neighbors, or ourselves. We are relentless. We depersonalize God to an idea to be discussed. We reduce the people around us to resources to be used. We define ourselves as consumers to be satisfied. The more we do it, the more we incapacitate ourselves from growing up to a maturity capable of living adult lives of love and adoration, trust and sacrifice. "

― Eugene H. Peterson , Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ (Spiritual Theology #5)

8 " The practice of prayer, if it is going to amount to anything more than wish lists and complaints, requires a recovery of personal, relational, revelational language in both our listening and our speaking. "

― Eugene H. Peterson , Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ (Spiritual Theology #5)

9 " It is true that the metaphor of growth is used frequently, as in "church growth" and "growing churches." But it is also obvious that the metaphor has been torn out of its origin in biology and emasculated into an abstract and soulless item of arithmetic, a usage as remote from the biblical soil as is imaginable - an outrageous perversion of the metaphor and responsible for an enormous distortion in the Christian imagination of what is involved in living in the kingdom of God. "

― Eugene H. Peterson , Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ (Spiritual Theology #5)