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Where division might normally reign, unity should instead lead to an uncommon love, where believers listen to and bear with one another.
Brett McCracken • Uncomfortable: The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community
Discernment is simply a different way of seeing and being with your neighborhood.
Alan J. Roxburgh • Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World
OUR GOD IS A RELATIONAL GOD
Kelly M. Kapic • Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn't the American Dream
chapter 1: “The Church Should Look Like That” with a look at God’s vision for the church.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
This is a key problem. As Guinness identifies, many of our churches have bought into the modern American consumer mindset in which we understand ourselves primarily as consumers and our churches as service-providers.
Owen Strachan • Jonathan Edwards on True Christianity (The Essential Edwards Collection Book 4)
The bending of the mind by the powers of this world has twisted the gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted the image of God into an eternal, small-minded bookkeeper. The Christian community resembles a Wall Street exchange of works wherein the elite are honored and the ordinary ignored. Love is stifled, freedom shackled, and self-righ
... See moreBrennan Manning • The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
Both of us are suffering from relational poverty, and both of us need the healing that only Jesus can give.