Reversed Thunder Quotes

“The power that the world acknowledges comes out of the mouth of a gun; the power that the person of faith respects comes from the mouth of Christ.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination

“What is frequently missed is that all the eschatology is put to immediate pastoral use. Eschatology is the most pastoral of all the theological perspectives, showing how the ending impinges on the present in such ways that the truth of the gospel is verified in life “in the middle.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination

“The pastor is the person who specializes in accompanying persons of faith “in the middle,” facing the ugly details, the meaningless routines, the mocking wickedness, and all the time doggedly insisting that this unaccountably unlovely middle is connected to a splendid beginning and a glorious ending.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination