Church Quotes by Lesslie Newbigin

8 Church quotes by Lesslie Newbigin

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Newbigin’s missiological focus emerges in these eight short passages about the church, where cultural engagement meets doctrinal depth. The snippets provide a succinct look at his thought on Christian mission.

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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…

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“Mission is not just something that the church does; it is something that is done by the Spirit, who”

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The Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ's witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a…

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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…

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The business of the church is to tell and embody a story

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Congregational life wherein each member has his opportunity to contribute to the life of the whole body, those gifts with which the…

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The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends…

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The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the…

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“The witness of which the New Testament passages speak is God's gift, not our accomplishment.”

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“the authority of Jesus is ultimate, the”

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“Universality and particularity do not contradict one another but require one another. How”

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To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes…

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“the Spirit himself is sovereign over the mission, the church can only be the attentive servant. In”

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“When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is…

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“A person who wields power cannot see truth; that is the privilege of the powerless.”

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“But if the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human being will be one which rests on the fidelity…

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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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