“I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it'...” — Eugene H. Peterson Quote

I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.

People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.

If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.

When you are part of a megachurch, you have no responsibility to anybody else.

Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

I remember in third grade, I asked my mom, 'How does an engine work?' So my mom bought me a book.

The one thing I get asked about weekly when people see me who have never met me before is about the damn brawl and I'm tired of talking about it.

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.