‘Christ Laid His Life Down for Me’: Greg Laurie Gives Powerful Gospel Presentation to Jordan Peterson

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‘******* ***** His Life Down for Me’: Greg Laurie Gives Powerful Gospel Presentation to Jordan Peterson

********** megachurch leader Greg Laurie recently appeared on psychologist Jordan Peterson’s podcast, where he gave the professor-turned-cultural commentator a powerful presentation of the Gospel.

“When everything’s said and done, what’s more important than the afterlife?” the California-based pastor asked Peterson. “What’s more important than where we spend it? According to the ******, I believe there’s a literal heaven, a literal *****, and I believe we choose in this life where we will spend the afterlife.”

Laurie added he’s going to spend eternity in heaven “not because I’ve lived a good life — because I ******* in many ways — but because ******* ***** His life down for me on the cross.”

“Coming back to Abraham, and what a picture, the son was willing to go and be sacrificed by the father,” the pastor continued, referring to 

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. “[Isaac] knew what was going on: ‘Hey, Dad, where’s the sacrifice?’ ‘My son, **** will provide for Himself a sacrifice.’ But Isaac made that sacrifice, too. The Son ****** made that sacrifice for us, because He knew there was no other way that we could reach ****, no other way we could satisfy the righteous demands of ****. So Heaven isn’t for good people, as it’s often said; heaven is for forgiven people.”

The conversation between Peterson and Laurie stemmed from the 71-year-old minister opening up about the ****** of his son, Christopher, who passed away in 2008 as a result of a tragic car accident.

He described that day in July of 2008 as the “worst” day in his life. Nevertheless, Laurie said he is not without hope — because of his ****** in the redemptive work of ******.

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“I believe I’ll see my son again, because he believed in ******,” Laurie explained. “He won’t be in heaven because I’m his dad; he’ll be in heaven because he put his ****** in ******* and he had that relationship. He’s a part of my future as well, so that gives me hope. But, also, I realize that **** can allow these things in our life. I don’t know why. I can’t explain it. I don’t even try to explain it.”

Peterson, author of the new book, “

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,” admitted to Laurie he struggles to intellectually reconcile a ******* to perfect the earthly world with the knowledge the ********** life is heavily weighted toward considering eternity.

The famed psychologist and podcast host asked, “How do you reconcile, in your own mind, the insistence that part of the ********** moral pattern is to perfect the world and to raise the material up to the heavenly with the notion of the afterlife and immortality?”

Laurie referenced 2 Corinthians 12:2-4, in which the Apostle Paul wrote about experiencing a “

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,” as well as the thief on the cross next to ******, Who promised the man, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in paradise” (

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).

The pastor explained he has felt closest to **** — and His promises of eternity — through life’s trials.

“**** made a lot of promises,” said Laurie. “I’ve put those promises to the test, including the worst thing of all, to lose a child. And I’ve seen how **** had come through for me. If He hadn’t come through for me after my son *****, I would have given up preaching, for sure. Why carry on? But He came through for me.”

You can watch the full conversation between Laurie and Peterson in the video embedded above.

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