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| “The Church must be free to be poor in order to minister among the poor. The Church must trust the Gospel enough to come among the poor with nothing to offer the poor except the Gospel, except the power to discern and the courage to expose the Gospel as it is already mediated in the life of the poor…When the Church has the freedom itself to be poor among the poor, it will know how to use what riches it has. When the Church has that freedom, it will know also how to minister among the rich and powerful. When the Church has that freedom, it will be a missionary people again in all the world. When the Church has the freedom to go out into the world with merely the Gospel to offer the world, then it will know how to use whatever else it has–money and talent and buildings and tapestries and power in politics–as sacraments of its gift of its own life to the world, as tokens of the ministry of Christ.” -William Stringfellow (HT to Nate Spencer) |
Jesse: I recently listened to an individual similarly persuaded by Mr. Osteen explain to me that you can identify a deeply spiritual Christian by their positive attitude.
QotH: The greatest threat to the Gospel in evangelicalism are “Church Marketing Plans”.
Heights: I did this route in my younger days…and these days the Grand Canyon thing looks pretty cool…cooler yet was the bridge Richard linked…though I’m thinking that it would be a lousy camera platform.
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