Holy Spirit Substitutions

May 28, 2024

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Eugene Peterson’s ideas and words have made an impact on me. Recently, I’ve been pondering something he said that his son, Eric, shared in a recent book:

I didn’t want to develop a congregation that substituted adrenaline for the Holy Spirit.1

In that self-revealing comment, I think he tapped into an underlying reason why the spirituality of contemporary …

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