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“Christians have become passive spectators in worship rather than active participants. By and large, we come to church to “watch the show” rather than to engage and participate.” quote by Leonard Sweet — Download Open image

““Christians have become passive spectators in worship rather than active participants. By and large, we come to church to “watch the show” rather than to engage and participate.””

Leonard Sweet

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The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

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“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 one person in two natures (divine/human) with four ministries (prophet/priest/king/sage) and four biographies (the Gospels). But those four biographies don’t tell the whole story. Every bit of Scripture is part of the same great story of…

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The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness.

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I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here.

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“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 in the NBA, with Johnson playing for the LA Lakers and Bird playing for the Boston Celtics. The rivalry of these two champions became legendary—as did their dislike for one another, which seemed to grow in…

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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…

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“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 our world has prevailed so long it is now a condition—a condition of shadows and storms, yielding a world of confusion and conflict, unruly souls, and unraveling societies. As both consequence and contributing factor, eating has…

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Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.

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It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which…

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“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 been proven that one of the secrets to a successful marriage and loving family is to eat before you argue. Blood sugar levels correlate with irritability and annoyance; low glucose levels escalate tensions and heighten tempers.[70]…

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When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.

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