I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
Mission begins with a kind of explosion of joy. The news that the rejected and crucified Jesus is alive is something that… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
To be elect in Christ Jesus, and there is no other election, means to be incorporated into his mission to the world,… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
The resurrection is the revelation to chosen witnesses of the fact that Jesus who died on the cross is indeed king -… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
The living God is a God of justice and mercy and He will be satisfied with nothing less than a people in whom his… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“The witness of which the New Testament passages speak is God's gift, not our accomplishment.” — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“The church is witness insofar as it follows obediently where the Spirit leads. The” — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“The minister’s leadership of the congregation in its mission to the world will be first and foremost in the area of his or her… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“Universality and particularity do not contradict one another but require one another. How” — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“the Spirit himself is sovereign over the mission, the church can only be the attentive servant. In” — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
