“If you’ve got a group that calls itself church, Christian church, and doesn’t oppose and confront the culture, I don’t think you have a New Testament church no matter how much you respect the people.”

Gordon Cosby

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“Without the Kingdom idea, the church loses its identity-forming hope. Without the church, the kingdom loses its concrete character.”

Stanley Hauerwas, Against the Nations, p. 112

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From Richard Rohr’s daily reflection via Chris

“Americans (and Australians) come at life expecting everything to work. It always has. I was born with seven silver spoons in my mouth. I had a strong family and was loved from the beginning. My parents paved a path for me. Do you realize what a head start that is? It’s wonderful. But there’s a dark side: People from privileged backgrounds expect that path always to be paved; they expect everything to work out. When it doesn’t, they’re not only disappointed, they feel wronged. They think, How dare reality not work out for me! Why should I have to suffer? How dare the air conditioner not work! That explains the morose, quasi-depressed state of so many affluent countries and peoples.”

From Toddy in the comments here:

“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action or it withers” Susan Sontag.

I like it. Feeling something doesn’t mean you actually care about it. Acting on your feelings is proof of genuine concern.

On a similar note (as dodgy as it sounds) I will quote myself, also from the comments section of that post:

“Beliefs that don’t show themselves in action are not real beliefs.”

I am tired of hearing people tell me they feel passionately about XYZ, but never getting off their arse and doing something about it. The reality is that they actually don’t feel passionately about the issue at all. They feel passionately about feeling passionate about something, and somehow in that mileiu feel like they are actually doing something.

And finally my missionary mate John Wilmot who I had dinner with tonight:

“Life is about investment.”

Not a bad way of saying that we only get one life so use it wisely and get a good return on whatever you do.

Sadly he said this around 30 years ago…

“The church today should be getting ready and talking about the issues of tomorrow and not the issues of 20 or 30 years ago, because the church is going to be squeezed in a wringer. If we found it tough in these last few years, what are we going to do when faced with the real changes that are ahead?”

One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative but revolutionary. To be conservative today is to miss the whole point, for conservatism means standing in the flow of the status quo and the status quo no longer belongs to us”

If we want to be fair we must teach the young to be revolutionaries, revolutionaries against the status quo”

Francis Schaeffer

Conservatives love to preserve the status quo at all costs. Conservatives love to persecute the new ideas. Conservatives probably don’t even realise they are conservative. Conservatives… finish the sentence…download little nicky divx

“You see when you are middle class you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history will never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price to be paid for day to day comfort and silence. And because of this all happinesses are sterile: all sadnesses go unpitied”

D Coupland in Generation X

With security, comfort and stability as prime values its no wonder history will ignore us. God help us to live beyond the banal tepid futility of middle class ness.

“He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice”

Albert Einstein

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“You hear it a thousand times and more growing up in the East–“We all come through different routes and end up in the same place.” But I say to you, God is not a place or an experience or a feeling. Pluralistic cultures are beguiled by the cosmetically courteous idea that sincerity or privilege of birth is all that counts and that truth is subject to the beholder. In no other discipline of life can one be so naive as to claim inherited belief or insistent belief as the sole determiner of truth. Why, then, do we make the catastrophic error of thinking that all religions are right and that it does not matter whether the claims they make are objectively true?

All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life’s purpose.

Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religions is at its core exclusive.” (Ravi Zacharias in Jesus Among Other Gods 2000, 6-7).

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“There are no closed countries if you do not expect to come back”

(Larry Poston, Evangelical Missiological Society national meeting, Nov. 15, 2000)

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