“In 1966 John Lennon commented to the American press that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. He may have been right. There is a difference between being preeminent and being popular.”
― Glory Hunger: God, the Gospel, and Our Quest for Something More
― Glory Hunger: God, the Gospel, and Our Quest for Something More
“God-given prayer and praise have as their essence a waiting on God, a willingness to be wrought upon by the hammer and the fire of the Almighty, until the chains of self-centered desires fall away from the personality, and the love of Christ become the deepest hunger of the inner life.”
― The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller
― The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller
“the whole Bible is itself a missional phenomenon. The writings that now comprise our Bible are themselves the product of and witness to the ultimate mission of God. The Bible renders to us the story of God's mission through God's people in their engagement with God's world for the sake of the whole of God's creation. The Bible is the drama of this God of purpose engaged in the mission of achieving that purpose universally, embracing past, present and future, Israel and the nations, "life, the universe and everything," and with its centre, focus, climax, and completion in Jesus Christ. Mission is not just one of a list of things that the Bible happens to talk about, only a bit more urgently than some. Mission is, in that much-abused phrase, "what it's all about.”
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“This then is what I mean by spontaneous expansion. I mean the expansion which follows the unexhorted and unorganized activity of individual members of the Church explaining to others the Gospel which they have found for themselves; I mean the expansion which follows the irresistible attraction of the Christian Church for men who see its ordered life, and are drawn to it by desire to discover the secret of a life which they instinctively desire to share; I mean also the expansion of the Church by the addition of new Churches.”
― The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church: And the Causes That Hinder It
― The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church: And the Causes That Hinder It
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