Kami is an animistic concept that all things living and dead possess a spirit; they may dwell, therefore, in all things animate or inanimate.


“Christianity is the only major religion to have at its central event the humiliation of its God.”
― Church History in Plain Language
― Church History in Plain Language

“The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not from exegetes, theologians, and spiritual writers, but from sitting still in the presence of the living Word and beseeching Him to help me understand with my head and heart His written Word. Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of *knowing* Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.”
― The Ragamuffin Gospel
― The Ragamuffin Gospel

“Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who have understood more about theology than most professors. Nor is theology a private subject of study for pastors. Fortunately, there have repeatedly been congregation members, and often whole congregations, who have pursued theology energetically while their pastors were theological infants or barbarians. Theology is a matter for the Church.”
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“God didn't come to fix anybody. He came to kill them and resurrect them from the dead.”
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“The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God”
― God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
― God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
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