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“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
“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
“Shalom is what love looks like in the flesh. The embodiment of love in the context of a broken creation, shalom is a hint at what was, what should be, and what will one day be again. Where sin disintegrates and isolates, shalom brings together and restores. Where fear and shame throw up walls and put on masks, shalom breaks down barriers and frees us from the pretense of our false selves.”
― Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
― Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
“There is more hope in honest brokenness than in the pretense of false wholeness.”
― 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
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