Gallup polls of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s indicate that 98% of Americans believed in God during these decades.
“the main stimulus for the renewal of Christianity will come from the bottom and from the edge, from sectors of the Christian world that are on the margins.”22”
― The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church
― The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church
“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”
― The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church
― The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church
“Left to their own devices, most organizations tend toward a sort of sociological conservatism that will increasingly forgo engagement with their context in favor of preserving what they see as their repository of inherited ideas. In other words, they turn away from missional engagement and toward an increasingly traditionalist, sentimental interpretation of reality. Instead of looking forward to a possible future of which they are called to be a part, they look back to an idealized past.”
― The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church
― The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church
“Truth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything to ever prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ
“Jesus envisions that discovering God’s kingdom will inspire two things: exhilarating joy, and huge change in your life.”
― 40 Days of God's Kingdom
― 40 Days of God's Kingdom
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