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It turns out that our greatest danger is not living without God. It is to mistake our own projections for God, and come up with a god in our own image,
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
themselves at or near the center of North American society. 2. Beginning in the mid-1960s that period came to an abrupt halt. The unraveling had begun and it produced increasing levels of anxiety. The churches engaged in more than fifty years of efforts at church growth, health, and renewal, all to get back to their normative location at the center
... See moreAlan J. Roxburgh • Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World
The pastor is not the one who saves people from any or all of the impingements. Rather, the pastor is the one who reminds the community that though God seems absent, nevertheless the God who is a minister arrives right here in the middle of such events of impingement, when things seem so hard.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
The people Crossan described as the expendables, those at the bottom of the bottom of the world’s pyramids of power.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
The self operating from this perspective strives to belong, to foster close and harmonious bonds with everyone. Orange promised a worldcentric stance; Green wants to cash in on the promise. Not only should individuals be able to break free from the prison of conventional roles, but the entire edifice of castes, social classes, patriarchy, instituti
... See moreFrederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
There are simply no seams between your public life, private life, and religious commitments. The pastor or priest has a central place in the functioning of the whole society.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
We live among strangers. In part, that is because, instead of our friends and family being clustered around us in the village as they once were, they are now dispersed all over the country, sometimes a whole continent.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
But a slick youth program is no substitute for a youth pastor who unapologetically teaches the Bible.
Cameron Cole, Jon Nielson • Gospel-Centered Youth Ministry
If your church is a stable, older church, are you engaged in planting new churches in your area? Are you not only willing but also planning to give money and people to that end? If your church seems unable to make this pivot, might it be better to bless a young church plant by bringing them into your established facility to worship when your church
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