I am writing papers today and studying for exams (not exactly what I want to be doing on a beautiful Satruday in LA), but the light is at the end of the tunnel for me with school as we have less than two weeks left!
“God is always active and dynamic, never simply sanctioning the status quo, but always calling us to something deeper. The God of the gospel is a God of surprises who catches people off guard. What happens when God acts? Young folks have visions and old folk dream dreams. Water turns into wine. Mustard seeds grow into huge plants. Treasures get discovered in unexpected places. Holy people and prostitutes sit down for meals together. That what the kingdom of God is all about. North American culture is not terribly comfortable with this perspective.”
“Although Christ was a mystic, he did not philosophize or discourse about various truths. He demonstrated them. He didn’t argue that spiritual life should conquer matter; he walked on water. He didn’t argue the worth of womanhood, he treated them with infinite respect and appeared in resurrection first to a woman; he didn’t argue that God answers prayers, he prayed. Many teachers have tried to diagnose the disease of humanity---Jesus cures it.” E Stanley Jones
Gandhi said- “he would find God must have as much patience as the man who would sit on the ocean beach and take up a drop of water on a straw and put it asise and thus empty the ocean by carrying away one drop of water at a time.”
“The mission (of the church) is to become Christ’s very body in the world to bring about a relationship of shalom with God and throughout all of creation, including humankind.”
“An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body, and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost and the other a corpse" E Stanley Jones
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The E Stanley Jones quote is powerful. I'm puttting that one on my fridge. love, the mama
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