The time to save God’s Dream is now. The people to save God’s Dream are you.
To imagine things other than they are is the essence of hope. It is also the stuff of revolution.
The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol – they begin in parable and end in us. These are not Bible stories that we learn; these are our stories.
The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.
The “hole in the moral ozone” is really what’s behind the hole in the ozone.
Hirsch and Ford believe that we’ve ‘demonstrated’ enough. It’s now time for ‘doing.’ This book shows how to be missional ‘Right Here, Right Now.’
Followers of Jesus don’t so much see different things from anyone else as they see the same things differently.
Leadership is the art of the future.
One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna.
Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and the gospel of peace.
We bless others naturally through our strengths. But we bless others supernaturally through our weaknesses.
God does not ask if we are able. God asks if we are available.” And the weakness we offer him, he turns into a strength.
Reading seeks for the sweetness of a blessed life, meditation perceives it, prayer asks for it, contemplation tastes it.
At the table, where food and stories are passed from one person to another and one generation to another, is where each of us learns who we are, where we come from, what we can be, to whom we belong, and to what we are called.
Authentic evangelism is lifting up the veil of what God is up to and manifesting the image of God in the world we are in.
We don’t preach the Scriptures; we let the Scriptures preach through us as they point to Christ.
Jesus Christ is the rest of God. He is, as N. T. Wright has put it, “the fulfillment of the sabbath.”114 By taking Christ as our rest, we cease from our labors just as God did from His.115 Christianity, therefore, begins not with a do, but with a done – “It is finished!”116 We enter into God’s rest, and we labor from there.
If you aren’t smelling awful smells sometimes, then you’re not where Jesus is.
If you’ve never bled, you have no material for preaching. If when you’re finished preaching you’re not finished, spent, wiped out – if you haven’t “given blood” – you haven’t really preached.9.
You are what you pay attention to. No attention, no life. Everything comes to life when you pay attention to.