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(as if there's not already enough people doing this)Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Quotes from Making Sense...
A couple of quotes from Spencer Burke's book Making Sense of Church, which I mentioned in my last post. Both are from a chapter called "Consumer To Steward : A Conversation About Ministry." No commentary for now, just a couple of quotes I thought were worth thinking about. I will try to comment as I have time.
I think AIDS is one of many issues that the world will look back on and ask "Where was the church?" Like it or not, I think we will be judged on how we handle the crisis. At present, our actions don't match up with our words. Our silence on the issue - and our lack of concern for the growing number of widows and orphans - is deafening. We talk about having love and compassion for the people of the world, but continue to pour the vast majority of our resources into ourselves - our church buildings and our programs. While we're paving parking lots and building auditoriums, African children are literally lying next to the corpses of their parents. It's tragic.And this one, not by Burke himself, but a post he addressed from theOoze.com:
At a recent leadership luncheon, Erwin McManus boldly challenged the myth that "the safest place you can be is when you're in the middle of God's will." To the contrary, McManus asserted that living in God's will is a dangerous proposition, often involving great risk. One might conclude that the lack of such risk-taking has been one of the factors contributing to the modern church's decline.
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