The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not … - Lesslie Newbigin

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Lesslie Newbigin

The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the levers of power: it was won when the victims knelt down in the Colosseum and prayed in the name of Jesus for the Emperor.

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Mission begins with a kind of explosion of joy. The news that the rejected and crucified Jesus is alive is something that cannot possibly be suppressed. It must be told. Who could be silent about such a fact? The mission of the Church in the pages of the New Testament is like the fallout from a vast explosion, a radioactive fallout which is not lethal but life-giving.

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Live in the kingdom of God in such a way that it provokes questions for which the gospel is the answer.

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I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

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The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship.

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It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.

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If you need counsel, start with the One who is both Counselor and King - the One who is the source of both wisdom and power.

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