Incarnational Communities Quotes

“If you want to help people we have to dive into people wade into the sea of humanity.”
― Hugh Halter & Matt Smay

“Focus on relationships in your communities and God will come up spiritual conversations will emerge and real needs will come to light.”
― Matt Smay

“The worst mistake has been that Christians have tried to make their church programs or worship services their third place place other than their home or workplace where they can relax and be in good company on a regular basis . The key is that third places need to be in public zones.”- What if more Christians spent their regular “church” time in places where they could meet others and begin relationships with them What might happen”
― Hugh Halter & Matt Smay

“As I speak for many in the budding new missional church world I have to share that I no longer judge the faithful fervent work of so many pastors who have pastored well but who struggle to find their place in this new world. They deserve to be honored instead of belittled. Without their legacy we would have nothing to build upon.”
― Hugh Halter & Matt Smay

“To live as the body of Christ in such a time as this is to reimagine what it means to remember and embody that story of resurrection.”
― Emmanuel Katongole, Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith After Genocide in Rwanda

“We’re not awaiting a divine invasion. We’re being invited into incarnation. Endings are always beginnings, and atonement an eschaton”
― Paule Patterson, The Son of Man & Its Mystical Awakening: Reclaiming Eschatology & Atonement During a Convergence of Globalization, Nihilism, Science, & Spirituality