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“The Christian sex ethic was revolutionary. It… requires sex to always be super-consensual—only for people ready to give their whole lives to each other.”
― Timothy J. Keller, How to Reach the West Again: Six Essential Elements of a Missionary Encounter

tags: christianity, consent, culture, sex

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“Political polarization... is one of the bitter fruits of the secular project, the first effort in history to build cohesive societies without a common set of shared moral and religious values.”
― Timothy J. Keller, How to Reach the West Again: Six Essential Elements of a Missionary Encounter

tags: culture, polarization, politics, religion

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“Pastors do not know enough about every vocational field to know how the gospel influences work in that sector. Clergy and laypeople [must] sit down as equals—each with some knowledge the other does not have—to plan for Christian witness in public life.”
― Timothy J. Keller, How to Reach the West Again: Six Essential Elements of a Missionary Encounter

tags: christianity, culture, pastor, vocation

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“When the church, in the interests of acquiring political power, aligns too much with the current age’s secular left or right, it is sapped of both spiritual power and credibility with non-Christians.”
― Timothy J. Keller, How to Reach the West Again: Six Essential Elements of a Missionary Encounter

tags: christianity, politics

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“Not every community is multi-ethnic and so not every church can or should be multi-ethnic. But, in general, it is both theologically warranted and missionally effective... to be as multi-ethnic as possible and to learn from the multi-racial global church.”
― Timothy J. Keller, How to Reach the West Again: Six Essential Elements of a Missionary Encounter

tags: christianity, culture, diversity, mission

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