Dustin Boreland

“Prayer means the risk of facing silence where we’re addicted to noise. It’s the risk of facing a God we’ve mastered talking about, singing about, reading about, and learning about. It means risking real interaction with that God, and the longer we’ve gotten used to settling for the noise around God, the higher the stakes. What if it’s awkward or disappointing or boring, or what if God stands me up altogether?”
― Tim Mackie, Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

“The problem is that many people treat morality as a list of rules. But in reality, every moral system rests on a worldview. In every decision we make, we are not just deciding what we want to do. We are expressing our view of the purpose of human life. In the words of theologian Stanley Hauerwas, a moral act “cannot be seen as just an isolated act, but involves fundamental options about the nature and significance of life itself.”
― Nancy R. Pearcey, Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality

“continuing the same things that are not bringing renewal is not going to bring renewal. Lack of commitment is not going to bring renewal. Business as usual will not bring renewal. Accumulating knowledge without putting it into practice will not bring renewal. We need our autopilot patterns interrupted.”
― Mark Sayers, Reappearing Church: The Hope for Renewal in the Rise of Our Post-Christian Culture

“To make disciples is to teach people how to keep the faith. One keeps faith by following Jesus’ words rather than merely knowing faith’s content.”
― Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Faith Speaking Understanding: Performing the Drama of Doctrine