Under The Unpredictable Plant By Eugene Peterson Summary
What are the three most valuable principles (MVPs) that you have learned from each of your three textbooks regarding the ethics of being a minister or ministry leader?
Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness: Eugene H. Peterson
The most valuable principle I have learned is the answer Eugene Peterson renders to the question, “Why would anyone flee the presence/face of God? This question reminds me of the carefree, overzealous, overflowing with tears experience; I ever experienced, when I first accepted Christ into my life. A feeling I never wanted to let go. I crave to embrace the same frame of mind, some thirty years later.
Peterson’s answer is that “A curious thin happens to us when we get a taste of God. He goes on to say, “The experience of God – the ecstasy, the wholeness of it – is accompanied by a temptation to reproduce the experience as God. The taste for God is debased into a greed to be God. Being loved by God is twisted into a lust to God-performance. In other words, we take on the Character of self-gratification. …show more content…
26:39). Hensen writes, “Jesus’ life has a general, narrative direction. We call this general direction the Way of the Cross. Jesus understood from the beginning that his was a life of sacrifice. His life flowed toward the cross at all times.”
Hansen declares, “God has called us to ministry. But it’s not enough to have a vision for ministry if you don’t have the practical skill for it.”
The Reward One of the MVP’s is the reward. Hansen writes, “Here is the reward of the pastoral ministry: being with people; bringing the love of Christ to them; being in that birthing
Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness: Eugene H. Peterson
The most valuable principle I have learned is the answer Eugene Peterson renders to the question, “Why would anyone flee the presence/face of God? This question reminds me of the carefree, overzealous, overflowing with tears experience; I ever experienced, when I first accepted Christ into my life. A feeling I never wanted to let go. I crave to embrace the same frame of mind, some thirty years later.
Peterson’s answer is that “A curious thin happens to us when we get a taste of God. He goes on to say, “The experience of God – the ecstasy, the wholeness of it – is accompanied by a temptation to reproduce the experience as God. The taste for God is debased into a greed to be God. Being loved by God is twisted into a lust to God-performance. In other words, we take on the Character of self-gratification. …show more content…
26:39). Hensen writes, “Jesus’ life has a general, narrative direction. We call this general direction the Way of the Cross. Jesus understood from the beginning that his was a life of sacrifice. His life flowed toward the cross at all times.”
Hansen declares, “God has called us to ministry. But it’s not enough to have a vision for ministry if you don’t have the practical skill for it.”
The Reward One of the MVP’s is the reward. Hansen writes, “Here is the reward of the pastoral ministry: being with people; bringing the love of Christ to them; being in that birthing