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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something (or so Thorin said to the young dwarves). You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
“Discipleship in Africa has to reckon with the Gospel’s answer to poverty and unemployment. Where there is total dependency on Western churches an indigenous holistic ministry will not flourish”
― Transforming the Church in Africa:: A New Contextually-Relevant Discipleship Model
― Transforming the Church in Africa:: A New Contextually-Relevant Discipleship Model
“we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”
― The Story of My Life
― The Story of My Life
“A Gospel that does not speak to one’s total needs—e.g. need for work, education, food, housing, clothes, clean water, respect, and love—is surely no Gospel.”
― Transforming the Church in Africa:: A New Contextually-Relevant Discipleship Model
― Transforming the Church in Africa:: A New Contextually-Relevant Discipleship Model
“Those people knew a degree, a good job, a savings account, and comprehensive medical insurance were the safety net that wise people put in place before obeying God. Trusting God wasn’t anything so foolish as total dependency on him.”
― Glorious Weakness: Discovering God in All We Lack
― Glorious Weakness: Discovering God in All We Lack
“If sin is loving something more than God, then idolatry is what happens when we apply creativity to this twisted love. Idolatry is the prideful act of adding imagination to our rebellion in order to create something to take God’s place in our lives. Creativity and idolatry come as a package deal. Idolatry is what happens when image bearers become image makers with creation’s images. It’s why creativity so quickly became idolatry’s handmaiden after the fall. In the chaos of cosmic treason, those made in the likeness of God fashion replacement gods in their own shattered likeness through their own misplaced creativity.”
― Images and Idols: Creativity for the Christian Life
― Images and Idols: Creativity for the Christian Life
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