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“There’s no question that false teaching poisons a church and dishonours God. But so too does ‘false living’ — whether it’s the false living of flagrant sin, or the false living of a quiet adherence to the middle-class values of the surrounding culture. This dishonours God in itself, but it also clouds the gospel for the watching world. If our church has orthodox teaching but unchanged lives, we communicate two contradictory messages: on the one hand, we say that following Jesus is the most important thing in the world; on the other, we show that following Jesus makes little or no difference.”
― Tim Adeney, Organizing Love in Church

“Richard Tarnas (quien de hecho no profesa la fe en Cristo), en su explicación de la cosmovisión occidental, observa que la iglesia limitó su comprensión de la fe cristiana y la adaptó a la cosmovisión humanista. A partir del siglo XVIII, la fe cristiana «se concentró exclusivamente en los asuntos espirituales internos del individuo»: «La antigua creencia cristiana de que la Caída y la Redención conciernen no solo al hombre sino al cosmos entero —doctrina que ya empezó a debilitarse después de la Reforma— ahora desaparecía por completo: el proceso de la salvación, si en efecto tenía algo de sentido, concernía únicamente a la relación personal entre Dios y el hombre».31 En consecuencia, la esfera de alcance del evangelio se restringió hasta abarcar solamente una relación personal entre Dios y el individuo humano.”
― Michael W. Goheen, Una Luz a las Naciones: La iglesia misional y el relato bíblcio (Colección Ministerio y Teología Misional nº 1)

“If we’re not seeing our church grow in love for God, his people, and his world, it’s possible that we’re doing all the right things, but God’s just not blessing our efforts. But where there’s a lack of fruit, it’s at least worth asking whether the vine needs tending — whether what we’re doing is in fact what God has asked us to do, or whether there are things we’ve inadvertently overlooked. Because our hope is that when God blesses, he blesses through us rather than in spite of us.”
― Tim Adeney, Organizing Love in Church

“We need to remember, therefore, that when friends tell us our faults, they are as Charles Spurgeon put it “performing on [our] behalf the most heroic act of pure charity.”13 Who wouldn’t want a friend like that?”
― Drew Hunter, Made for Friendship: The Relationship That Halves Our Sorrows and Doubles Our Joys