Below are fifteen favourite quotes from books I've been reading this month. I plan on leaving this post here for a while so please post your own comments. Thanks.
"Let mutual love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers . . . Let us then go to him outside the camp and bear the abuse he endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we are looking for the city that is to come." Hebrews 13:1-14
"Post-Christendom churches, freed from pretensions to kingship, recognize that the kingdom of God is an "upside-down kingdom," . . . They choose to be identified with the poor, the weak, the marginalized, those without voices or status. They adopt as their agenda for mission the Nazareth Manifesto: . . . to bring good news to the poor . . . [the rest of Luke 4:18-19]." Stuart Murray
"A paradigm shift will have taken place in our understanding and practice of evangelism . . . it is relational, contextual, humble, patient, and wholistic." Stuart Murray
"[it] goes where people are and listens, binds together prayer and truth, celebrates the goodness and complexity of life as well as judging the sinfulness of evil, and sees truth as something to be done and experienced as well as to be intellectually believed. It walks in humility." John Finney
"The baptized are those who willingly enter the suffering of all creation with the redemptive love of God." Mark Love
"In the New Testament, we encounter the church as the people on whom the end of the ages has come." Mark Love
"The thorniest issue for the church that resists the spirit of the age is wealth." Randall Harris
"As word spread about the dramatic changes that were taking place in people's lives, apartment managers began requesting that churches be started in their complexes as well." Randall Harris
"Luke stresses that the resurrected Jesus was no mere spirit but was tangible and could eat and drink with the disciples (cf. Luke 24:30, 37-39, 41-43)." Ben Witherington III
"The more I worried through this set of issues, the more I felt that any constructive Christian social ethic would have to find a way to recover a church with an integrity of its own rather than simply an institution designed to make "democracies" work better." Stanley Hauerwas
"For what we are, our sense of ourselves, rests as much on what we have suffered as what we have done." Stanley Hauerwas
"To learn to be God's creatures means we must learn to recognize that our existence and the existence of the universe itself is a gift." Stanley Hauerwas
"In New York freedom looks like too many choices . . ." U2
"Would you deny for others what you demand for yourself?" U2
"The more you know the less you feel . . ." U2
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1 comment:
That is a whole lot of quotes, 15 to be exact. There are definatly some good ones. I like the shorter ones. They are easiest for me to understand. Wealth is a thorny issue for me right now and I think it is very much overlooked in our genre of churches as Randy Harris aludes to. The second Randy Harris quote looks interesting, I think I would have to read it in context to get the full effect. I suppose you can't go wrong with quoting the bible. Hospitality is something that I admire in people. The second to last quote by U2 definatly makes me think. Nice collection of quotations. Peace.
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