"Getting saved is easy; becoming a community is difficult - damnably difficult."
(Eugene Peterson; "Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places", pg 250)

By far, the shortest outtake I'm likely to highlight from anything. But I couldn't help but laugh as I ran across this very short lead-in to Peterson's summary of his point. Peterson covers the history of Moses (as possibly one of the Bible's biggest "failures," no less) in a way that completely alters every Sunday School story you're likely to remember. He opens up the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy in a way that suddenly make them appealing to someone looking for more than a list of moralistic codes to live by. And all that essentially boils down to his point above.

The section I'm in is the last of the book ... covering how Christ "plays in community." Perhaps the relevance of this section to me is that it touches on every form of challenge I had in locating a church where I felt at home - something that covers well more than a decade of my own past. But it also highlights a lot of what I see around me within the church I now call home ... and what I think we all see around us in whatever community we're in. Easily worth the price of the book alone, just for this section.