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Reading Mark's Christology Under Caesar: Jesus the Messiah and Roman Imperial Ideology

by Adam Winn (Goodreads Author)

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Mar 29, 2025 09:51AM

“I didn’t want to be a religious professional whose identity was institutionalized. I didn’t want to be a pastor whose sense of worth derived from whether people affirmed or ignored me. In short, I didn’t want to be a pastor in the ways that were most in evidence and most rewarded in the American consumerist and celebrity culture.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, The Pastor: A Memoir

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“Congregation is composed of people, who, upon entering a church, leave behind what people on the street name or call them. A church can never be reduced to a place where goods and services are exchanged. It must never be a place where a person is labeled. It can never be a place where gossip is perpetuated. Before anything else, it is a place where a person is named and greeted, whether implicitly or explicitly, in Jesus’s name. A place where dignity is conferred.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, The Pastor: A Memoir

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