Shun spirituality that does not require commitment. Personal commitment to the God personally revealed in Jesus is at the heart of spirituality. Faddish spiritualities, within or without the church, ignore or deny commitment…
Spirituality without commitment is analogous to sexuality without commitment—quick and casual, superficial and impersonal, selfish and loveless—eventually a parody of its initial [...]
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Eugene Peterson
Posted in Church, Commitment, Community, Discipleship, Faith, Religion, Sex, Spirituality, Worship on June 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thomas Howard
Posted in Belief, Christian Life, Church, Discipleship, Jesus Christ, Sacraments on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the simple act of taking bread, and of blessing, breaking and giving it to His disciples, the Lord gathered up all the mystery of the gospel: that the Word must become flesh, and that this flesh must be broken for the life of the world…
At that supper table with His friends, Jesus revealed Himself [...]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Posted in Autonomy, Christian Life, Church, Community, Sin on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, not withstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final breakthrough to fellowship does not occur because, though they have fellowship with one another as believers and as devout [...]
George MacDonald
Posted in Christian Life, Church, City, Discipleship, Love on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jesus didn’t die in a Cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves, on the town garbage heap at a cross roads so cosmopolitan that they had to write his name in Hebrew and in Greek. (George MacDonald, late 19th c. writer and poet)
C. Jeff Woods
Posted in Church, Culture, Spirituality, Westernism on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The church has sought to guide the spiritual lives of its members in very practical, reasonable ways. That sounds like a compliment. It’s not. Contrary to Western thought, spirituality is anything but reasonable and practical. (C. Jeff Woods, Congregational Megatrends, 1996)
Mikhail Bakunin
Posted in Church, Identity, Imagination, Searching, Skepticism on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy. (Mikhail Bakunin)
Thomas Howard
Posted in Church, Community, Discipleship, Gospel, Liturgy, Peace, Relationships, Worship on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…we proclaim together our citizenship in that joyful realm known as the Kingdom of Heaven, where pride, cruelty, greed, and all the things that wreck our fellowship with each other are forever banished, and where the citizens always fervently and joyfully offer each other ‘the peace of the Lord.’ This is what sanctity (‘sainthood’) is [...]
Madeline L’Engle
Posted in Baptism, Children, Church, Community, Love, Renewal, Resurrection, Sacraments on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am glad that in the communion of my church we are baptized as infants, because this emphasizes that the gift of death to this world and birth into the Kingdom of God is, in fact, gift—it is nothing we have earned, or even, as infants, chosen. It is God’s freely bestowed love. It is [...]
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