a conversation on growing up in christ
Eugene H. Peterson
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Hardcover edition 2010
Paperback edition 2013
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Peterson, Eugene H., 1932–
Practice resurrection: a conversation on growing up in Christ / Eugene H. Peterson.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-8028-6932-6 (pbk: alk. paper)
1. Bible. N.T. Ephesians — Commentaries. I. Title.
BS2695.53.P47 2010
227′.5077 — dc22
2009037051
“Looking for Mt. Monadnock,” reprinted from Robert Siegel, The Waters Under the Earth (Moscow: 2005), 70, by permission of Canon Press.
Excerpt from Part I of “Choruses from ‘The Rock’ ” in COLLECTED POEMS 1909–1963 by T. S. Eliot, copyright 1936 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and renewed 1964 by T. S. Eliot, reprinted by permission of the publisher. Also reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd.
Unless otherwise noted, Bible quotations in this publication are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
yoked together in love for fifty years
in the practice of resurrection
1. The Church of Ephesus: Ephesians 1:1–2
Church Illusions and Deceptions
2. The Message to the Ephesians: Ephesians 4:1, 7
The Psalm 68 Text: “You ascended the high mount …”
3. God and His Glory: Ephesians 1:3–14
4. Paul and the Saints: Ephesians 1:15–23
“I remember you in my prayers”
“It is here. We are on it. It is under us”
5. Grace and Good Works: Ephesians 2:1–10
6. Peace and the Broken Wall: Ephesians 2:11–22
“A serious house on serious earth”
7. Church and God’s Manifold Wisdom: Ephesians 3:1–13
“I am the very least of all the saints”
Meshech and the Tents of Kedar
8. Prayer and All the Fullness: Ephesians 3:14–21
“Glory in the church and in Christ Jesus”
“I bow my knees before the Father”
9. One and All: Ephesians 4:1–16
“The calling to which you have been called”
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About Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing up in ChristWinner of Christianity Today Book Award for best book in spirituality. In Practice Resurrection Eugene Peterson brings the voice of Scripture—especially Paul’s letter to the Ephesians—and the voice of the contemporary Christian congregation together to unpack the crucial truth of what it means to fully grow up to the “stature of Christ.” Though bringing people to new birth in Christ through evangelism is essential, he says, isn’t growth in Christ equally essential? Yet the American church by and large does not treat Christian maturity and character formation with much urgency. We are generally uneasy with the quiet, obscure conditions in which growth takes place, and building maturity in Christ too often gets relegated to footnote status in the text of our lives. Peterson’s robust discussion will move readers to restore transformed Christian character to the center of their lives. |
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