Pastors And Novels Eugene Peterson Analysis

The same way Peterson was perceived as strange because he seemed to be the only person in his pastoral group to read books, I was the only person in my group of friends at home with a global vision. In Tanzania, I realized that at although at home I was isolated in my interests, when placed in an international community, Atheists and Muslims make up the majority. In undeveloped areas, American Christians are grossly underrepresented in the medical dynamic. In America, Christianity is the prominent religion, which is quickly fading taking away our salt. Making us bland and faithless like the world around us. If we lose our salt, we lose our purpose we lose our uniqueness and then the Gospel is not served. IT IS OUR DUTY TO BE SALT AND LIGHT TO THE WORLD.
In “Pastors and Novels,” Eugene Peterson argues that, in addition to biblical text, pastors should supplement their arsenals with novels to more …show more content…
For this procedure the patient is supposed to be under general anesthesia and the patient should be unconscious but I noticed that the patient was awake and feeling everything. They continued doing the procedure even though I pointed out that the patient could feel it. She felt her already compromised skin being ripped off because of a lack of love and respect on the surgeon 's part for his fellow man, not because of lack of anesthesia. An elderly man was jabbed several times in the spine, because the interns didn 't know how to and the only anesthesiologist on staff was out. Lack of resources was the issue indubitably. It is our duty as humans as brothers to help where there is need. It is our duty to be salt and light. We must spread love to our brothers and sisters around the world or else they are forced to survive in a dark, salt less world. But we are not meant to just survive we are made to live life abundantly in the love of our