Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ
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There is no question that bringing men and women to new birth in Christ is essential. But, argues Eugene Peterson, isn’t it obvious that growth in Christ is equally essential? Yet the American church does not treat Christian growth and character formation with equivalent urgency. We are generally uneasy with the silent, obscure conditions in which growth takes place. Building maturity in Christ is too regularly relegated to footnote status in the text of our lives.
In Practice Resurrection Peterson brings the voice of Scripture, especially Paul’s letter to the Ephesians and the voice of the contemporary Christian congregation together in understanding what is involved in the practice of apt mature growing up to the stature of Christ.
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Practice Resurrection is typically Eugene Peterson: mind-bending, direct, faithful to right Biblical teaching in its kindness and sincerity. A levelheaded piece of work. Every volume in this “Conversation” series is well worth reading and contemplating, even when there is not entire agreement
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Wellspring is the name that comes to my mind everytime I pick up a Eugene Peterson book. I consider him my best friend, yet he does not even know me. I read and re-read until his next book comes out. And I am never disappointed. He writes for persons who can’t get even of God but have had enough of legalism and liberalism. He protects the word, he clarifies the word, and in the end, we know the word better.
Bud Surles
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
When it comes to his books, Peterson and I have a like despise relationship. I’ve read 4 out 5 in this series (Eat this book is one I haven’t got yet) and each time I find myself going through a similar wave of emotion. There are times when Peterson meanders and waffles on to the point where I am ready to close the book and throw it away. But when I hit that point Peterson brings everything he’s said to a sharp conclusion, and it all makes sense. I like his books and I despise them at the same time. But I have to say that this was his best effort since “Christ plays in 10,000 places”. The book is an informal commentary on Ephesians, which Peterson claims to have taught for many years to his congregations. Peterson is intent on seeing Christians grow to the full measure of stature in Christ. In additional words Peterson wants us to become mature Christians, not tossed by every wind and doctrine. There is so much meat in this book that it’s hard to summarise it all. I really like his chapter on Grace and Works. All my life I had seen the two as nearly antithetical to each additional. At best they should be a sign of the grace already received from Christ. But Peterson took a different route. Grace permanently requires a form, a container, otherwise it becomes an impersonal and abstract doctrine. Excellent works are the containers for Grace to be taken out from the impersonal to the personal. God is intensely personal, nothing about the God we serve is impersonal. I had never thought of it from that angle. If you’ve got the time and patience, read this whole series from start to end. Scott Mcknight is right, one does not skim Peterson, one ponders Peterson.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
The Church takes a lot of beatings in well loved Christianity today. Tell-all life tale from the hottest new writers detailing the quirks and sins of “church people” and the psychological harm they’ve caused glide off the shelves. It has become fashionable to debate the value of the Church to the cause of Christ, and words like “community” and “gathering” have become the acceptable way to clarify the assembly of believers. Too many of the rebuttals written by traditionalists seem more concerned with tradition than with the Church.
In Practice Resurrection, Peterson explores the Church as it is, the Body of Christ born of the Holy Spirit, not as it has been or as we would like it to be. He is mindful that the Church is imperfect (by way of its composition of sinners saved by grace), but seeks to erect it up rather than deconstructing it. He writes, “Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with the church. I say sooner.”
Peterson’s book (the fifth in a series of works on spiritual theology) is, in essence, an informal commentary on the book of Ephesians. He points out that nearly all New Tribute letters to churches were written because of something–doctrinal error, rampant sinfulness, pointless squabbles, etc.–but Ephesians appears to be motivated by Christ’s like for His people. He applies Paul’s encouragement to the Ephesians to the life of today’s Church as a model, urging believers to “walk worthy of the calling with which [we] have been called” (Eph. 4:1).
The title, Practice Resurrection, comes from Paul’s grounding of His entire description of the Body in the fact of Christ’s resurrection. Peterson describes the Church as something of an station for life in a country of death, and pinpoints our growth into spiritual maturity as the outworking of the raised Christ in our lives. As he works his way through Ephesians, he describes the forms and actions of the Church not just theologically, but through the very concrete realities of human relationships and his decades of pastoral ministry.
Peterson’s book is a breath of fresh air to persons who like Christ’s Church, “warts and all,” and desire to see her cleansed “by the washing of water with the Word.” He doesn’t excuse her faults, but lovingly exhorts individuals to live out the reality of the resurrection together as the dynamic Body the Lord ordained.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ
I had a lot of terrible assumptions about Peterson. Initially, I thought THE MESSAGE was just another paraphrase intent on dumbing down the gospel, watering the Word, and trying to be “seeker-friendly” at the expense of apt God-less. I carried persons fake assumptions into my reading of PRACTICE RESURRECTION. I was incorrect. This was the first Peterson book I have read. I cannot tell you how many times I establish myself practically shouting, “Amen,” “Praise the Lord,” “right on,” etc. I even went out and bought a copy of the CONVERSATIONS version of THE MESSAGE. I have come to accept it as one more tool in increasing my personal understanding of God’s Word, improving the quality of my walk with Christ, and in motivating me to BE more, DO more, LOVE more, not to grieve the Holy Spirit, and just be a better member of the body of Christ. JESUS IS LORD. And, Eugene Peterson knows that, teaches, that and blesses as he shares his very keen spiritual insights.
Did I say I was incorrect before? Well, count me a fan now.
Buy this book, read it, share it and buy yourself a second copy to highlight, write notes in, and place all persons small post-it flags in to mark your favorite passages. Sorry to say for me, the WHOLE book is a favorite passage.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5