“Theology starts with a crisis, the very crisis of reality itself. The crisis is the fact that you live, that you have… — Andrew Root Crisis 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… — Andrew Root Anselm 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… — Andrew Root Bonhoeffer 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… — Andrew Root Cross Copy Share Image
“But if faith is only for the future, there will be no faith, for like manna, faith saved spoils.” — Andrew Root Bonhoeffer 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… — Andrew Root Ministry 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),… — Andrew Root Goals 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.… — Andrew Root Christianity 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… — Andrew Root Relational-ontology 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… — Andrew Root Christianity 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… — Andrew Root Relationships Copy Share Image