In times of change, the learners will inherit the earth, while the knowers will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.
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William Booth, (April 10, 1829 – August 20, 1912), British Methodist preacher who founded of the Salvation Army
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If you find yourself criticizing other people, you’re probably doing it out of Resistance. When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own. Individuals who are realized in their own lives almost never criticize others. If they speak at all, it is to offer encouragement. Watch yourself.
If today’s church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.” - Martin Luther King Jr
Jesus did not come to set up a program but modeled a way of living that incarnated the reign of God, a community in which people are reconciled and debts are forgiven just as we forgive our debtors. That reign did not spread through establishments or structural systems. It spreads like a disease—through touch, through breath, through life. It spreads through people infected by love.
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Shane Claiborne (via marshallnorthcutt)
the kingdom of God must be incarnated by us, His kingdom people, through a faith and life marked by simplicity enough that it can spread virally. our faith must be coughable.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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Martin Luther King (via @quotme)
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