“The main thing that distinguishes mealtimes with Jesus, as Conrad Gempf has shown, from the meals of his contemporaries are four verbs.[44] Whether it’s the feeding of the five thousand, the Last Supper, or the Emmaus meal, four things take… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“We don’t need to travel to find Christ. Christ has already traveled to find us. God is not the one whose back is turned.… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“The end product of biblical Christianity is a person—not a book, not a building, not a set of principles or a system of ethics—but… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness. — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here. — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“More recently, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird faced each other on the basketball court as arch-competitors—first in high school, continuing through college, and culminating… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Energy-fire experiences take us into ourselves only that we might reach outside of ourselves. Metanoia is a de-centering experience of connected-ness and community. It… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“IF A PROBLEM PERSISTS for generations, it is no longer a crisis. It’s a condition. The identity crisis facing our faith, our families, and… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry. — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“Got some conflicted relationships—people who have attacked you and hurt you, whose very presence causes gruff intestinal rumble? The table reduces fighting. It has… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything. — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“If work really were such a good thing, then the rich would surely have found a way to keep it for themselves. HAITIAN PROVERB” — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
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