Thursday, November 8

Process of Becoming a Pharisee

Eugene Peterson on the process of becoming a Pharisee:

"[Phariseeism is the] slow change from an interior passion to an exterior performance and the shift of attention from the majesty of God to house cleaning for God." (p. 212, The Jesus Way)

1 comments:

Anonymous November 13, 2007 at 3:30 PM  

Phariseeism is really picking and choosing which commands of God to make important and which to diminish. But I suppose when you sink into outward ritualism you necessarily make the outward ones more important.