It’s seven p.m. The living room is cozy. What is USAmerican discipleship like, particularly in suburbia?… We sip our coffee, eat our snacks, and read our “lessons” and fill in the blanks of our cool workbooks, wondering if this will be over before “24” starts. Oh, there’s the urgency. There is more danger and urgency… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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Quotation of the Week
“Together, they left behind 34 children and at least a dozen grandchildren.” From Black Hawk Down, Newsweek, February 5, 2007
Quotation of the Week
What Ignatius and Green emphasize is the need to be hungry for God’s will in our life, and to give God a blank check. Yikes! That’s a scary thought. I like to consider God’s will within some conditions and frameworks of acceptability, not a blank check! Yet what both Ignatius and Green stress is that… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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“As a Bible teacher, one of my basic concerns has become simply to get people to read the Bible with open eyes. Some people learn to; others do not. I want people to read the Bible, to be open to finding there things that they had not realized were there, to be enthralled and dazzled… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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“If it was us, if it was our lonesome ass shuffling past the corner of Monroe and Fayette every day, we’d get out, wouldn’t we? We’d endure. Succeed. Thrive. No matter what, no matter how, we’d find the f—— exit… That’s the myth of it, the required lie that allows us to render our judgments.… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
Quotation of the Week (two for the price of one)
What should we get out of worship? Wrong question. Worship is not a utility but an offering, i.e. a sacrifice, an economy of grace that interrupts and critiques the feverish cycles of production and consumption – which is why the collection is not fund-raising but cultural critique. If you want relevance, excitement, or profit, go… Continue reading Quotation of the Week (two for the price of one)
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Nobody falls down on their face before the god they wanted. Nobody trembles at the word of a home-made god. Nobody goes out with fire in their belly to heal the sick, to clothe the naked, to teach the ignorant, to feed the hungry, because of the god they wanted. They are more likely to… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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Christianity is not a belief system…Your core values tell me nothing… If you found a religion on beliefs, how you think, very shortly the people who will be in that religion will live and act no differently than anybody else in the culture. And that is exactly where we are today… Religion is a relationship… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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For this reason, the “user friendly†approach to church won’t work. There is no way to entice people off the streets with hymns that are based on advertising jingles and end up with the cross-bearing, self-sacrificial, burden-bearing Jesus. Evangelism cannot be based upon our basic selfishness (“Come to Jesus and get everything you want fixed.â€)… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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View the Present through the Promise View the present through the promise, Christ will come again. Trust despite the deepening darkness. Christ will come again. Lift the world above its grieving through your watching and believing in the hope past hope’s conceiving: Christ will come again. Probe the present with the promise, Christ will come… Continue reading Quotation of the Week