1.0Jesus Creedhttps://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/jesuscreedScot McKnighthttps://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/jesuscreed/author/smcknightEugene Peterson: Practice Resurrection 2 - Jesus Creedrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="qeQTZOQ8C2"><a href="https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/jesuscreed/2010/02/eugene-peterson-practice-resur-1.html">Eugene Peterson: Practice Resurrection 2</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/jesuscreed/2010/02/eugene-peterson-practice-resur-1.html/embed#?secret=qeQTZOQ8C2" width="600" height="338" title="“Eugene Peterson: Practice Resurrection 2” — Jesus Creed" data-secret="qeQTZOQ8C2" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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In Eugene Peterson’s new book, Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ , we are treated to a response to the posted from Wednesday about criticizing the church. What is the church? Do you tend to idealized the earliest churches? But do you neglect then the deformities of those same churches? “Church,” he observes, “is…http://blog.beliefnet.com/jesuscreed/files/import/assets_c/2010/02/Peterson-thumb-333x317-11765.jpg