“With grace and hope, the church is to inherently and commonly seek and love the forgotten, the unseen, the undesirable, the uncool. We need to do so with unexpected, tangible love, displaying counterintuitive compassion (including enemy-love) and demonstrating a capacity… — Mark Labberton Copy Share Image
“The Word made flesh in Jesus Christ should show through us. We are meant to be primary evidence of the flourishing love, grace and… — Mark Labberton Copy Share Image
“Each of us is a child of parents, perhaps a sibling to someone, a friend to friends, a colleague to coworkers. Following Jesus starts here. It starts with learning to see these people again for the first time, now visible to us anew as we learn to see them as made and loved by God, see their lives whole and… — Mark Labberton Copy Share
“Amid an array of moral convictions, the indistinguishable character of the church undermines its claims of a superior—indeed ontologically true—moral vision. On the broad public level, the spectacular failures of the church’s leaders discredit its claims of “goodness.” When the Christian next door demonstrates the same self-interested, consumer life as anyone else, goodness seems like a faint sentimentality.” — Mark Labberton Copy Share
“When God’s people fail to live our call, the church buries the gospel.” — Mark Labberton Copy Share Image
“With grace and hope, the church is to inherently and commonly seek and love the forgotten, the unseen, the undesirable, the uncool. We need… — Mark Labberton Copy Share Image
“Local churches are often microcosms of the same sociology as any other part of life and bear little evidence of the new humanity Jesus… — Mark Labberton Copy Share Image
“Today, in a staggeringly complex and diverse world, the overarching biblical narrative that includes creation, fall, redemption and fulfillment has frequently been rejected and… — Mark Labberton Copy Share Image
“How the church communicates its message, how it tells and lives “the old, old story,” and why and how that story matters today is… — Mark Labberton Copy Share Image
“We aren’t disciples in midair without bodies, histories, personalities, relationships and much more. We begin to follow by responding to Jesus’ invitation where we… — Mark Labberton Copy Share Image
“The vocation of every Christian is to live as a follower of Jesus today. In every aspect of life, in small and large acts,… — Mark Labberton Copy Share Image
“Waking up is the dangerous act of worship. It's dangerous because worship is meant to produce lives fully attentive to reality as God sees… — Mark Labberton Copy Share Image
