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Love is better suited as a verb than a noun says Peterson. As a verb, it goes into action and gets embedded in a story and in that story it reveals its true nature. “Stories do that: create imaginative conditions in which we intuitively an imperative command to leave the slovenly world of detached an impersonal discussions and become obedient participants in life.” AGREE but we also need sound wisdom too!
— Aug 07, 2025 09:37AM
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Sean Hernandez
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“Prayer can be learned only in the vocabulary and grammar of personal relationship: Father! Friend! It can never be about getting the words in the right order. It can never be a matter of good behavior or proper disposition or skillful manipulation.”
I do think we need to be mindful of how pray but there is a child like way we do fall on our father for help. We are called to be needy by our Father.
— Aug 15, 2025 10:20AM
I do think we need to be mindful of how pray but there is a child like way we do fall on our father for help. We are called to be needy by our Father.
Sean Hernandez
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Self-justification often takes the offensive and put the other person in a relationship on the defensive to shift attention to them. The man asking Jesus was trying to test Jesus and get on the offensive. However, Jesus sees right through it and levels that playing field. And not just HERE but in our own lives too. We just gotta listen.
— Aug 07, 2025 09:26AM
Sean Hernandez
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Peterson identifies that this man uses self-justification to show that he is loving. He wants to wiggle out of what a “neighbor” would look like. “Self-justification is a verbal device for restoring the appearance of rightness without doing anything about the substance.” I think we do this a lot honestly, I know I do it. Relationships invite us into suffering and uncertainty and we don’t get control.
— Aug 07, 2025 09:24AM
Sean Hernandez
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Here Peterson defined spiritual direction:
“In spiritual direction the language used in the proclamation and teaching of the gospel is worked out in one-on-one conversations that take seriously the uniqueness of each person and the actual circumstances in which that person lives. It wont do to lump souls into categories and then herd them into one of three or four boxes and be dealt with by a formula.”
— Jul 28, 2025 09:08AM
“In spiritual direction the language used in the proclamation and teaching of the gospel is worked out in one-on-one conversations that take seriously the uniqueness of each person and the actual circumstances in which that person lives. It wont do to lump souls into categories and then herd them into one of three or four boxes and be dealt with by a formula.”
Sean Hernandez
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I think Peterson is interested in an all encompassing language to talk with. Not just “religious” talk on Sundays but language that is discerning the voice of God when we are not “talking” about God.
I would agree here. There is a lot of talk about God but how do we talk outside of Sundays matters. Peterson and I would agree, we need to be more attentive to our language for the more casual conversations.
— Jul 28, 2025 09:02AM
I would agree here. There is a lot of talk about God but how do we talk outside of Sundays matters. Peterson and I would agree, we need to be more attentive to our language for the more casual conversations.
Sean Hernandez
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Peterson wants of “godtalk” which is:
The impatience to get God’s word out; we depersonalize what we have to say into rote phrases or a programmatic formula without regard to the person we are meeting. As the urgency to speak God’s word increases, listening relationships diminish. We end up with fleshless words —> godtalk.
— Jul 28, 2025 08:50AM
The impatience to get God’s word out; we depersonalize what we have to say into rote phrases or a programmatic formula without regard to the person we are meeting. As the urgency to speak God’s word increases, listening relationships diminish. We end up with fleshless words —> godtalk.
