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“They always loved my sense of humor. There used to be a light switch inside one of the nurseries that was a cutout of Jesus putting his arm around two children on each side of him as he towered abo...”
“Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on our knees and repent for the terrible things we have done in the name...”
“If Jesus looks too feminine to us, maybe it says more about our understanding of masculinity than it does about a possible conspiracy to feminize the church and men.”
“Respectable Protestant denominations retreated inside...leaving...unaffiliated madwomen to evangelize alfresco...”
“Almost All Christians want to taste the fruits of revival but only a few will do what's necessary to achieve it.”
“No institutional arrangement will ever contain all that they church is. Don't look for it institutionally; look for it relationally. Certainly the New Testament talks about the priorities of that c...”
“The Holy Spirit never draws attention to Himself. He always points to and reveals Jesus.”
“Life should be lived more from the heart than the head.”
“The liturgy is the place where we wait for Jesus to show up. We don't have to do much. The liturgy is not an act of will. It is not a series of activities designed to attain a spiritual mental stat...”
“In a number of workshops, I have asked people whether they have had one or more experiences that they would identify as an experience of God and, if so, to share them in small groups. On average, 8...”
“Jesus never says to the poor: come find the church, but he says to those of us in the church: go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.”
“The fact is, it is selfish for a church to not want to grow. A church that says, Weve got enough people, weve got a nice fellowship. Our church is just the right size. We just need to focus on the ...”
“I am convinced it is, then our churches are filled with believers who are hurting, to one degree or another, whether visible or unseen. Some come every Sunday clinging to a thread of hope that some...”
“The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and in the way you act from day to day, in the way you treat other people. It's h...”
“One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and mo...”
“The task is to become church for them, among them and with them, and under Spirit of God to lead them to become church in their own culture.”
“On the other hand, activist Christians who talk much about justice promote a notion of justice that envisions a society in which faith in God is rendered quite unnecessary, since everybody already ...”
“How vigilant we must be to ensure that we dont allow our impression of Jesus to be held captive by the prevailing mores of our secular culture! Rather, it is essential that we continue to return to...”
“Americans tend to use "nation" as a synonym for "country." But political scientists and historians, as well as many Europeans, tend to use the term for a much more specific phenomenon: a group of p...”
“Unfortunately, we often have shallow relationships because we have paper towel friends. We use them up and then throw them away when we don't need them anymore.”
