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Eric E. Peterson
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“I’m beginning to think (or maybe it’s what I have thought all along) that this is what pastors are primarily responsible for: the ways and means by which we guide people into obedience and trust. In a technologically obsessed culture, our imaginations are quite naturally dominated by ways and means. Since all technology is by definition good, there is no critical attention or discernment available—anything that looks good and makes people feel good and gets a lot of good people together must be good.”
― Letters to a Young Pastor: Timothy Conversations between Father and Son
― Letters to a Young Pastor: Timothy Conversations between Father and Son
“The devil’s three temptations of Jesus all had to do with ways and means. Every one of the devil’s goals was excellent. The devil had an unsurpassed vision statement. But the ways and means were incompatible with the ends. Jesus saw through it at once; why are pastors so intoxicated with visions and goals and so muddled when it comes to ways and means?”
― Letters to a Young Pastor: Timothy Conversations between Father and Son
― Letters to a Young Pastor: Timothy Conversations between Father and Son
“Dear Eric, I don’t know why I’m having such a hard time getting focused on this letter to you. I started nearly three weeks ago, and I keep pressing the delete button. So here I go again. Let me start with what happened earlier this week, the trip I mentioned on the telephone. I went to Tyler, Texas, on Tuesday and came back on Wednesday. This is the first time I have done anything in the way of promotion of The Message. The publicist at NavPress prevailed on me several months ago, said she thought this was really important. She was wrong. I was in the wrong country with the wrong people. The”
― Letters to a Young Pastor: Timothy Conversations between Father and Son
― Letters to a Young Pastor: Timothy Conversations between Father and Son
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