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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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“I can, however, talk endlessly about the way I’ve been thrown on my ass over and over by the Bible, the practices of the church, and the people of God. That is to say, by religion.”
― 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?
“Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?”
― Light in August
― Light in August
“Sometimes the things that need to be set right are not just in the lives of those we seek to serve. The things that need to be set right may also be in our own lives.”
― 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?
“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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