A church with a consumer mentality, where the laity are purely passive consumers of whatever is delivered from the front, will rarely be an evangelistic church. (Graham Tomlin, the Provocative Church, pg. 131)
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Graham Tomlin
Posted in Culture, Discipleship, Mission on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Brian McLaren
Posted in Mission on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of my mentors once said to me, ‘Remember, in a pluralistic world, a religion is valued based on the benefits it brings to its nonadherents.’ This surprised me, and I thought about it for days. Many people think the opposite of what my mentor said: that religions offer benefits to adherents and catastrophic threats [...]
John Piper
Posted in God, Mission, Worship on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Mission exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is [...]
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