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I don’t believe God wants our church life to be centered on buildings and services. Instead, God wants our churches—whatever specific forms our gatherings take—to be focused on active discipleship, mission, and the pursuit of unity.
Francis Chan • Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up
“The theology that matters is not the theology we profess but the theology we practice.”
Francis Chan • Letters to the Church
To take a step back once more, when people write about “atonement theology,” the tendency has been to go to Paul and Hebrews and to come to the gospels only for those detached phrases that will support (or so it seems) the kind of “theological” construct that has already been culled from Paul.
N. T. Wright • How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
foundational for any congregation’s ministry and witness. They are
John W. Stewart • Envisioning the Congregation, Practicing the Gospel
A Theocentric Approach to Life, Ministry, and the Gospel
Owen Strachan • Jonathan Edwards on True Christianity (The Essential Edwards Collection Book 4)
If Augustine spent half his life battling the heresy of Pelagianism—the pretension that the human will was sufficient to choose its good—it’s because he saw it as the great lie that left people enchained to their dissolute wills. And no one is more Pelagian than we moderns.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
anyone who thinks love of God can be done without love of neighbor is deluded. We demonstrate that we love God only when we are loving others.