tell it slant-- through parables and questions...

More from Eugene Peterson and his Mars Hill Audio interview with Ken Myers...

The title of Peterson's latest book is "Tell it slant"-- from the provocative Dickinson poem of the same name.

Peterson goes on to note Christ's use of parables-- and that He seemed less interested that they get the message, than that he got them. He often didn't seem all that interested in (high degrees of) clarity. He often relied on allusion and questions-- to engender participation and ownership in a path of "evangelism" and more to the point, discipleship.