“We are the relationships that make us; we have our being in and through relationships that place us into reality, and therefore we are open ontologically to the possibility of encounter.” — Andrew Root Copy Share Image
“Theology starts with a crisis, the very crisis of reality itself. The crisis is the fact that you live, that you have a life… — Andrew Root Copy Share Image
“The Anselmian call for "faith seeking understanding" may start and gather it's energy not in rational study of past theological points but in the… — Andrew Root Copy Share Image
“Grace is costly because it calls us through our person to the person of Jesus Christ. And when we follow the person of Jesus… — Andrew Root Copy Share Image
“It is when we are up against death, when we find ourselves in despair, that the God of cross is near to us. It… — Andrew Root Copy Share Image
“But if faith is only for the future, there will be no faith, for like manna, faith saved spoils.” — Andrew Root Copy Share Image
“The Church may have a building, but that is not its place. The building may be the church's location, but its space is in… — Andrew Root Copy Share Image
“By mobilizing relational ministry from how, by stopping only at Langmead's first aspect of incarnational mission (Jesus as a pattern for mission), the who… — Andrew Root Copy Share Image
“Ministry is not about helping these kids be better Christians; it is about helping them be what God created them to be-human. And it… — Andrew Root Copy Share Image
“We are the relationships that make us; we have our being in and through relationships that place us into reality, and therefore we are… — Andrew Root Copy Share Image
“Ministry, then, is not about "using" relationships to get individuals to accept a "third thing," whether that be conservative politics, moral behaviors or even… — Andrew Root Copy Share Image
“In true relationships, the only point is to be together. Once there is another point, the relationship withers under the heat of expectations and… — Andrew Root Copy Share Image
