Tags: ecclesiology

• Eugene Peterson on church

  “Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity.” Genius!! What a compelling (and complicated) invitation!! “So, why church? The short answer is because the Holy Spirit formed it to be a colony of heaven in the country of death” (p11-12). The church, Peterson says, is those people who practice the resurrection of Christ in the country of death. Sure, he admits, the church isn’t all it seems it should be but he makes this [...]