“I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, "When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.”
“To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.”
“A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.”
“So if the world hates us, we take courage that it hated Jesus first.
If you're wondering whether you'll be safe, just look at what they did
to Jesus and those who followed him. There are safer ways to live than
by being a Christian.”
“How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the
answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq, as if to
says 'Jesus is the answer - but not in the real world.”
“Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.”
“When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism
will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.”
“I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?”
From his book, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical. He'll be at Lincoln on Sunday . . .
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