Peterson, Eugene H, The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways that Jesus is the Way

By Russ Resnik | April 13, 2008
(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007.) I will start with a disclaimer - I'm biased toward Eugene Peterson. The first article I read by him was "The Unbusy Pastor," back in 1981,[1] and it remains a favorite, even if I am still not as unbusy as Peterson would recommend. The article opens with a classic Peterson thesis-articulate, counter-cultural, and concrete: The word busy is the symptom not of commitment but of betrayal. It is not devotion but defection. The adjective busy set as a modifier to pastor should sound to our ears like adulterous to characterize a wife, or embezzling to describe a
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