Mark Copley

“The only times “work and keep” are used together in the Bible are in Eden (Gen. 2:15) and the tabernacle (for example, Num. 3:7–8).7 When you think of the tabernacle, you should think of Eden.”
― Preston Sprinkle, Charis: God's Scandalous Grace for Us

“These are classic insiders—the fussy traditionalists who operate close to the center and seldom break with convention. In such traditionalistic organizations, intelligence and decision making tend to be drawn out from the reservoir of inherited wisdom. These inherited ideas are seen to be inviolable, even sacrosanct.”
― Alan Hirsch, The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church

“Abstract theology, sacramentalism whose standard was quantity not quality and over-refined piety. The guidance provided by clergy to the flock is being confined to a little artificial world of ritualism, of religious practices and pious extravaganzas, which is completely cut off from the true current of reality.”
― Alex Terego, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ

“The first apostles of Christ were in the eyes of the world “unlearned and ignorant” men: it was not until the Church had endured a persecution and had grown largely in numbers that Christ called a learned man to be His apostle.31”
― Alan Hirsch, The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church