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the leader who sees the church as the Body of Christ will be in wholehearted agreement knowing that the health of a body is far more important than the size!
Andrew Murray • Seeing The Church: When your purpose collides with God's passion
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Sinclair B. Ferguson • The Whole Christ
Based on the incarnation and the consequent development of trinitarian theology, Christianity prepared the way for modern conceptions of freedom, personhood, solidarity and social compassion.
Jens Zimmermann • Incarnational Humanism: A Philosophy of Culture for the Church in the World (Strategic Initiatives in Evangelical Theology)
Merold Westphal,
James K. A. Smith • The Nicene Option: An Incarnational Phenomenology
St Bonaventure (c.1217–74), for instance, governor-general of the order from 1257 to 1274, was a university man and speculative theologian of enormous erudition who succeeded grandly in combining the mystical elations of Franciscan piety with the rational disciplines of academic philosophy.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
Among serious Christians in congregations today there is a growing desire to meet together with other Christians during the midday break from work for life together under the Word. Life together is again being understood by Christians today as the grace that it is, as the extraordinary aspect, the “roses and lilies” of the Christian life (Luther).
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Daniel W. Bloesch (Translator) • Life Together
“The Church is the Church only when it exists for others” (Bonhoeffer, 1972, 382).
John W. Stewart • Envisioning the Congregation, Practicing the Gospel
If Luther’s statement, “We are Christ to the neighbor,” is to be taken seriously, and, if we can believe the New Testament witness which proclaims Jesus as resurrected and thus active even now, then he must be alive in those very men who are struggling in the midst of misery and humiliation.
Matt Queen • Recapturing Evangelism
