“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. —G. K. Chesterton12” — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali,… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry. — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“Philip Yancey was dead-on when he said that some Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.79” — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Too many Christians want to change the world not because they love the world but because they hate the world — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness. — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Followers of Jesus don’t so much see different things from anyone else as they see the same things differently. — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“Christians have become passive spectators in worship rather than active participants. By and large, we come to church to “watch the show”… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“If we were to make the table the most sacred object of furniture in every home, in every church, in every community,… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
When I am engaging with people of other religious faiths, I find myself unable to commit to their conclusions or agree with… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I don’t do books’? Can you imagine… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“The end product of biblical Christianity is a person—not a book, not a building, not a set of principles or a system… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“Believe me, you have too many practices already. What is needed is rather a progressive inner simplification. Too many people identify spiritual… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the "new… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali,… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“We don’t need to travel to find Christ. Christ has already traveled to find us. God is not the one whose back is turned.… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share
“The end product of biblical Christianity is a person—not a book, not a building, not a set of principles or a system of ethics—but… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share
The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness. — Leonard Sweet Copy Share
I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here. — Leonard Sweet Copy Share
“More recently, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird faced each other on the basketball court as arch-competitors—first in high school, continuing through college, and culminating… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share
Energy-fire experiences take us into ourselves only that we might reach outside of ourselves. Metanoia is a de-centering experience of connected-ness and community. It… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share
“IF A PROBLEM PERSISTS for generations, it is no longer a crisis. It’s a condition. The identity crisis facing our faith, our families, and… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share
Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry. — Leonard Sweet Copy Share
It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share
“Got some conflicted relationships—people who have attacked you and hurt you, whose very presence causes gruff intestinal rumble? The table reduces fighting. It has… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share
When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything. — Leonard Sweet Copy Share
“If work really were such a good thing, then the rich would surely have found a way to keep it for themselves. HAITIAN PROVERB” — Leonard Sweet Copy Share
One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna — Leonard Sweet Copy Share
The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share
