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The Salvation Army can help the Western church know the way out of the wilderness as it: • Serves people’s needs across all areas of life; • Addresses people’s needs without requiring them to become church people; • Advocates for the least
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“But we’ve lost the plot if we use religion as the place where we escape from difficult realities instead of as the place where those difficult realities are given meaning.”
― Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
― Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
“What brings credibility to the gospel is not more hour-long sermons. What brings credibility, passion, and, ultimately, belief is seeing the gospel at work … the incarnate gospel. What will move skeptics, cynics, and critics are Christians who love God and love their neighbors—including neighbors who don’t look like them—by willingly and humbly serving their needs.”
― Overrated: Are We More in Love with the Idea of Changing the World Than Actually Changing the World?
― Overrated: Are We More in Love with the Idea of Changing the World Than Actually Changing the World?
“But around God’s table, and around God’s people, you don’t have to pretend or overcompensate. You can just be. And in just being, you can, in the fierce and loving eyes of God, be known, be whole, and maybe even find a little rest. Because keeping it all going is just exhausting.”
― Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
― Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
“And to say “Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy” is to lay our hope in the redeeming work of the God of Easter as though our lives depended on it. Because they do. It means that we are an Easter people, a people who know that resurrection, especially in and among the least likely people and places, is the way that God redeems even the biggest messes we make”
― Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
― Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
“Some would say that instead of the cross being about Jesus standing in for us to take the really bad spanking from God for our own naughtiness (the fancy theological term for this is substitutionary atonement), what happens at the cross is a “blessed exchange.” God gathers up all our sin, all our broken-ass junk, into God’s own self and transforms all that death into life. Jesus takes our crap and exchanges it for his blessedness.”
― Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
― Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
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