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“When expectations of mobility are combined with a consumer mind-set, people are very likely to leave when things get difficult.”
― Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us
― Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us
“Isolation from local needs and overexposure to overwhelming but distant need, make our responses to strangers uncertain and tentative at best”
― Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition
― Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition
“One great reason why the rich in general have so little sympathy for the poor is because they so seldom visit them. Hence it is that [according to the common observation] one part of the world does not know what the other suffers. Many of them do not know, because they do not care to know: they keep out of the way of knowing it -and then plead their voluntary ignorance as an excuse for their hardness of heart.”
― Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition
― Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition
“In scripture, remembering falsely or forgetting entirely is often associated with an absence of gratitude. One of the saddest judgments passed on people in Scripture is that they didn't remember God's steadfast love.”
― Living Into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us
― Living Into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us
“At times we deliberately turn away from vulnerable strangers, choosing not to see them, quietly steeling ourselves to resist their intrusions into our lives. This is not only a contemporary problem; Chrysostom and Wesley criticized parishioners who ignored the poor and the strangers they encountered. They had strong words for Christians who pled ignorance when they had actually chosen not to see.”
― Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition
― Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition
“In denominations where pastors are moved to a different church or churches every few years, issues of mobility and fidelity are complex in other ways. Laypeople may hesitate to make deep, long-term commitments when they don't know what the next leadership change will bring.”
― Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us
― Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us
“Eugene Peterson offers a word of warning: "Impatience, the refusal to endure, is to pastoral character what strip mining is to the land - a greedy rape of what can be gotten at the least cost, and then abandonment in search of another place to loot."5”
― Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us
― Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us
