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The Bible and Mission
“The Bible renders to us the story of God’s mission through God’s people in their engagement with God’s world for the sake of the whole of God’s creation…”
The Mission of God
Christopher Wright -
Begin Reimagining Your Life…
“We can begin [to reorganize our lives around the Kingdom of God] by surrounding ourselves with other people who are asking the same questions - who are suspicious of the emptiness of consumption and who dare to risk just a little bit more and dare to love just a little bit deeper.”
- Shane Claiborne as quoted by Tom Sine in The New Conspirators
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Guder and The Missional Church
“We believe that we are the church, that is, we are a community of God’s people called and set apart for witness to the good news of Jesus Christ. We are blessed to be a blessing. As the Father has sent Christ, so Christ sends us. Jesus Christ has defined us as his witnesses where we are. We believe therefore that the Holy Spirit not only calls us but also enables and gifts us for that mission. Our task is …
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Poverty
“Poor people die not only because of the world’s indifference to their poverty, but also because of ineffective efforts by those who do care…”
William Easterly, in the book The White Man’s Burden
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Christian Contrairians
“The stickler is that Christianity doesn’t make a very good religion in this sense. Christianity is not a faith of conservation and preservation. It is a faith of creation, participation, movement, and change. For conservation to happen, something needs to be stopped. Something needs to be limited. Something needs to be ignored. And too often that ’something’ is the unstoppable, unlimited, impossible - to -ignore activity of God at work in the world.”
Doug Pagitt (From the first …
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NT Wright on Preaching the Resurrection
“So many people think preaching the Resurrection means doing a little bit of apologetics in the pulpit to prove it really is true. Others simply say, “Jesus is raised, therefore there is a life after death.” This isn’t the point! Those types of sermons may be necessary, but there’s more to it than that. To preach the Resurrection is to announce the fact that the world is a different place, and that we have to live in that “different-ness.” The …
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Life Together Quote
“It is not simply to be taken for granted that the Christian has the privilege of living among other Christians.”
Dietrich Bonhoffer in Life Together
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Privatizing the Faith
“The community that confesses that Jesus is Lord has been, from the very beginning, a movement launched into the public life of mankind. The Greco-Roman world in which the New Testament was written was full of societies offering to those who wished to join a way of personal salvation through religious teaching and practice. There were several commonly used Greek words for such societies. At no time did the church use any of these names for itself. It was not, …
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Eugene Peterson on Life and Christ
“Rescue me from the person who tells me about life and omits Christ, who is wise in the ways of the world and ignores the movement of the Spirit.”
- Eugene Peterson in
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Newbigin on Private and Public Truth
“We read [scripture], naturally, as part of our real history, secular history, the history of which we are a part. What other history is there? There are not different histories, but there are different ways of understanding history…it is clearly an illusion to imagine that there are two kinds of history - sacred and profane, salvation history and secular history.”
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Bosch and Incarnational Ministry
“It should not bother us that [during different epochs] the Christian faith was perceived and experienced in new and different ways. The Christian faith is intrinsically incarnational; therefore unless the church chooses to remain a foreign entity, it will always enter into the context in which it happens to find itself.”
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Bonhoffer on Confession
“In confession the break-through to community takes place. Sin demands to have a man by himself. It withdraws him from the community. The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation. Sin wants to remain unknown…”
Dietrich Bonhoffer in Life Together (p.112) -
The Gospel
“The gospel is the work of God to restore humans to union with God and communion with others, in the context of a community for the good of others and the world.”
- Scot McKnight in Jesus Creed
Apparently I am now friends with myself on facebook. I live in Canada too eh.