Eugene Peterson's New Message

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🗓️ 13 July 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Kevin Miller didn’t see Eugene Peterson’s support for same-sex marriage coming. Miller, pastor of the Anglican congregation Church of the Savior, has read Peterson’s 30 works, visited him at his congregation and home, interviewed him multiple times, and considers the creator of The Message Bible paraphrase a personal hero. But Miller, former editor at Leadership Journal, wasn’t expecting Peterson to tell writer Jonathan Merritt that he would be willing to marry a same-sex couple if asked. “Eugene has written so beautifully in his Spiritual Theology series about how we listen to the word,” said Miller. “He is a writer who engages Scripture at some of the deepest listening levels and he is prophetic in his gift and temperament as well as pastoral. To invoke the culture shift as though the culture shift has anything to say to us as a church, I was just like ‘Eugene, that’s not what you taught us to discern theses kind of issues!’” Miller joined assistant editor Morgan Lee and editorial director (and guest host) Ted Olsen to discuss the tension of learning from theologians after they’ve changed their convictions, the hallmarks of Peterson’s ministry, and what it means for the future of reading The Message. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find clear answers to tough questions about Christianity.
0:11.0	Learn to explain your faith with courage and compassion.
0:14.5	Join Moody Bible Institute professor Dr. Mikhail del Rosario at apologeticsky.com.
0:29.6	Music Michael Del Rosario at Apologetics guy.com. Hey, this is Morgan Lee, and you're listening to Quick to Listen.
0:33.1	Each week we go beyond hashtags and hot tics to discuss a major cultural event.
0:38.1	I'm an assistant editor and today I am joined by Ted Olson.
0:41.5	Hey, Ted.
0:42.0	Hey, Morgan.
0:43.0	Good to be back on Quick to Listen.
0:44.6	I always like it when Mark goes out of town so that I could hop on the podcast.
0:48.0	And good news for everyone listening to the show.
0:50.4	You will also be here next week.
0:52.1	Yeah, exactly.
0:53.2	So bonus Ted episodes. I actually feel like
0:55.1	you come on a lot during the summer. Like last year we did that Olympics episode. Yeah, it's fun. I like,
0:59.2	I like doing this. Ted, who do we have joining us today? We have Kevin Miller. Kevin Miller is pastor of
1:04.6	Church of the Savior, an Anglican congregation in Wheaton, Illinois. He is, in fact, my pastor at Church of the
1:10.8	Savior. He was
1:11.6	formerly vice president of Christianity Today and a longtime editor at a leadership journal,
1:17.0	Christianity's sister publication. I have a lot of Kevin Miller in my life, and I like it.
1:21.9	I like that. That's a good thing.
1:24.5	Anyway, you can also hear Kevin on our sister podcast, Monday Morning Preacher, from Preachingt Today.com.
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