“the fuller story of the New Testament is that God’s people have been resurrected as the body of Christ. Just as Jesus is the embodiment of the shalom that God intends for creation, the church’s role in the drama of… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“In addition to the transience of their members, churches themselves face a crisis of hypermobility. Many churches have put down only shallow roots in their neighborhood, or no roots at all. We’ve all heard the question, “If our church suddenly moved to a new location fifteen miles away, would anyone in our neighborhood notice we were gone?” But what if… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share
“As someone once said, we’re in the world but not of the world, so we can be for the world.” — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“the fuller story of the New Testament is that God’s people have been resurrected as the body of Christ. Just as Jesus is the… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly. The Church [has] to learn how to… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly.Cling to them, survey them from every… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“Open-handed generosity and caring for the poor and marginalized as if we were caring for Jesus himself are extensions of our worship.” — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“In Western culture, we are also profoundly shaped by the ethics of individualism. We learn early on to follow our own stories wherever they… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“We can start work we won’t see the end of. “Plant sequoias,” urges Wendell Berry: Put your faith in the two inches of humus… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“[Our minds] were given to us for another purpose: to raise to awareness the communal reality of nature, to overcome separateness and alienation by… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“But lost in that sea of (valid) criticism is the perhaps subtler critique that in an age of consumerism, economic imperialism and what Martin… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
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