“Not everything that counts can be counted.”
A sign in Albert Einstein’s office at Princeton
If you would like to speak to others with authority, you must first speak to God with intimacy.”
John Baker
“…Unless people are convinced that the Bible is authoritative, true, inspired, and the very words of God, over time they will read it less frequently, know it less fully, and trust it less surely.”
Why We’re Not Emergent.
“As one of my friends often says: ‘If you study the Bible and it doesn’t lead you to wonder and awe, then you haven’t studied the Bible.’”
Rob Bell
“Five Chapters a day keeps the pastor away.”
Leonard Sweet
“If god wanted me to touch my toes, He would have put them on my knees.”
T-shirt
“To flee into invisibility is to deny the call. Any community of Jesus which wants to be invisible is no longer a community that follows him.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“’I mean they are our kids and all.’… ‘But really they belong to God. Terri and I had sex, but that’s it. I don’t know how to make a human being. God makes a human being.’… ‘I guess what I am saying is, one day, I’ve got to introduce Chris to his real Father. And I’m not talking about the mailman.’”
John MacMurray
“The parents may believe what they need is a community center to keep their teenagers off the streets. In reality, what they need is to have Christ as the head of their home and to raise their children using God’s standard instead of the world’s.”
Spiritual leadership
“it is not what you keep from a child that will save him, nor what town you move him to. It is what you put into him in the first place.”
New York Times editorial after Littleton
“There is only one reason you should be a Christian. Because it’s true. Not because it’s good for you; not because you’ll be healed if you believe it; not because it brings peace and goodwill into the world. The only reason you should be a Christian is because God is god and because Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” Leonard Sweet
“Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective.”
Rob Bell
We are more impressed by a church of 4,000 people who have no clue about God’s character and His expectations, than by a church of 100 deeply committed saints who are serving humankind in quiet but significant ways.”
Geaorge Barna
“This church… has survived a great deal. Car Wrecks, cancer, extramarital affairs, some bad theology, and the like. But, much like the small town that it’s in, it has taken care of its own. It has mourned with those who mourn. It has delivered meals. It has made countless hospital visits. It has, for the most part, spoken truth and preached the gospel of Christ crucified. It has come alongside single mothers… I find myself, this morning, very proud of the church and its people.”
Why We’re Not Emergent.
“A church community which does not call sin sin will likewise be unable to find faith when it wants to grant forgiveness of sin.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The greatest sin of the church today is not any sin of commission or sin of omission, but the sin of No Mission.”
“Those who are in love with community, destroy community; those who love people, build community.”
Dietrich Bonhoffer
“When action-oriented compassion is absent, it’s a tell-tale sign that something’s spiritually amiss.”
Becoming A Contagious Christian
“Methodist founder John Wesley suggested that it is impossible to hold a conversation lasting more than thirty minutes without saying something that shouldn’t be said.”
Leonard Sweet
“When God’s people are like ‘David’s’ in worship, the world sits up and takes notice, a concept that is the single, most important principle of worship evangelism.”
Sally Morgenthaler
“Here lies Ezekial Aikle Age 102 The Good Die Young”
Epitaph in East Dalhousie Cemetery. Nova Scotia
“On one occasion a man who was under the control of a demon lunged at Martin, trying to bite him. Martin challenged the demon by thrusting his fingers into the man’s mouth. The contact with the holy man was so unbearable that the demon had to escape. But because its exit through the mouth was shut off, the demon had to leave through the anus in the midst of a ‘discharge from the bowels’”
Ron Kydd
“If you’re concerned about your dignity, think about this: Where’s the dignity in being hung naked on a tree? Where’s the dignity in kneeling down to wash the dirtiest parts of someone’s body? Where’s the dignity in being born in a manger?” Leonard Sweet
“Whether your faith is that there is a God or that there is not a God, it you don’t have any doubts, you are either kidding yourself or asleep.”
Frederick Buechner
“Look in the mirror before you look out the window."
Chris Seay
