A Better Way to Be a Pastor: The Wisdom of Eugene Peterson
- Andy McIlvain
- 18 hours ago
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Video from Roys Report
A Better Way to Be a Pastor: The Wisdom of Eugene Peterson
"Pastoral ministry has increasingly been reshaped by the values of platform culture: visibility, growth, efficiency and the ability to draw a crowd. But Eugene Peterson embodied a radically different vision—a pastor who knew his people, paid attention to God and believed faithfulness was personal, slow and rooted in place.
On this episode, Lance Ford talks with Winn Collier, author of A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson. Drawing from Peterson’s journals, letters and decades of friendship, Collier reveals the private prayers, habits and convictions that made Peterson’s public life remarkably congruent.
Lance and Winn explore Peterson’s resistance to celebrity ministry, his conviction that the message and the way of Jesus cannot be separated, and his warning that pastors’ “addiction to the crowd” may be one of the church’s most destructive temptations.
From weekly Sabbath and deep friendships to woodworking, fiction and ordinary beauty, Peterson built rhythms that kept returning him to God. His life offers pastors and church leaders a better way forward—not bigger, faster or more impressive, but faithful, present and formed in the way of Jesus." from the video introduction