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“Incarnation is good news not because it offers us a way out of the mess of this world, but because it shows us what God's love looks like here and now.”
― The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom
― The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom
“We celebrate the differences among us, even that which we cannot reconcile, not in denial of the absolute, but in the gift of humility that those differences require of us. Without denying our differences, we no longer allow them to categorize or divide us. It is in the diversity that the image of God is most fully reflected in and through us.”
― Living Christ Together: Reflections On The Missional Life
― Living Christ Together: Reflections On The Missional Life
“...Relationship is not about positional authority but about dynamic mutuality.”
― Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
― Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
“Above all is the centrality of love at the heart of vulnerable faith. Vulnerability will thrive only where love abounds—a love that is generous, gracious, patient, compassionate, humble, curious, joyful, and full of hope. In the absence of fear and the bondage it inflicts on us, love will put down roots, grow, and extend its reach far beyond our expectations or natural capacity. Love we once reserved only for those closest to us can be offered even to those who would persecute us. Enemies are transformed into sisters and brothers and friends.”
― Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
― Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
“This emphasis is directed primarily at the here and now, as Christ-embodying communities of active love in the midst of the world. All of creation is caught up in the restorative work. The mission of God’s people is not simply directed at saving people’s souls from a bad life-after-death into a good life-after-death, but it addresses and hopefully touches the injustice and violence around us—poverty, racism, sexism, economic exploitation, war, environmental destruction—where salvation, justice, and peace can merge.”
― Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
― Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
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