http://www.jakecolsen.com/index.html So You Don’t want to Go to Church Anymore. Here are some random quotes and thoughts I had while I read this book-things I would write in the margins or underline as I read it… No more performance based acceptance. No more task-based friendships. “Always separate the failure of the system from the hearts…
Sorrow is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart.Ecclesiastes 7:3
I came across this and man, does it provoke or what? I don’t know about anything else on this site, so be careful, but this post was really good.
When inviting someone to church is considered a form of evangelism [proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom of God], we are woefully off target.
Good quote about christians in the world from The So-called Letter to Diognetus on CCEL.org To put it simply: What the soul is in the body, that Christians are in the world. The soul is dispersed through all the members of the body, and Christians are scattered through all the cities of the world. The…
We must always be as intelligent, thorough, and clever as we can. -Dallas Williard, Divine Conspiracy
“This was the education to form great statesmen, great orators, great warriors, great poets, great architects, great sculptors, great philosophers: because, once for all, it formed men, and not mere knowledge-boxes: and the men, being men, had minds, and could apply them to the work. whatever it might be. which circumstances had given them to…
“Violent revolutions, in this sense, aren’t revolutionary. Noisy regime changes are utterly predictable ‚Äì bourth about by displays of power and hollow promises and indomitable wealth. In contrast, the message of Jesus may well be called the most revolutionary of all time… “What other kind of revolution would possibly change the world? perhaps what’s crazy…
The role of the Church, Jesus, the Third World, and more. Go listen to it right now you Mighty (Wo)Men scroll down to June 3rd, “Do You Realize How Far We Are – Rob Bell”
The way we are with each other is the truest test of our faith. How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on…
