some strange stream of consciousness ideas
Thu
Mar
27
“ Life did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking.
Fritjof Capra (quoted from elsewhere)
Wed
Mar
19
“ A gate can be a barrier or it can be a passageway to the other. The latter is the secret of the kingdom.
Thomas Keating (The Kingdom of God is Like…)
Thu
Feb
21
“ if the world could have been saved by bookkeeping, it would have been saved by Moses, not Jesus.
Robert Farrar Capon
Tue
Feb
5
“ It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Aldus Dumbledore
Mon
Feb
4
“ God created woman for redemption before redemption ever was needed.
Dan Allender
Sun
Jan
27
“ How ironic that the cross — the icon of the dominating Roman framing story — became the icon for the liberating framing story of Jesus. And how much ironic if we who believe in Jesus dn’t get the irony.
Brian McLaren (Everything Must Change)
Fri
Jan
25
“ The parables perform a similar service. They suggest that our idea of the kingdom may not be the correct one. Our ideas of God and the kingdom need to be expanded and to grow continuously.
Thomas Keating in The Kingdom of God is Like…
Mon
Jan
21
“ Gathering and sending are related to one another like breathing in and breathing out.
Jurgen Moltmann, The Fellowship of the Spirit
Mon
Jan
14
“ We are most like God in that our speech brings about profound change. God speaks — to create or to destroy. He creates beauty; he destroys sin. Too often we create chaos and destroy beauty with our words.
Intimate Allies (Allender and Longman)
Sat
Jan
5
“ Evangelism should never deterioriate into coaxing, must less into threat. It is not the same as (1) offering a psychological panacea for people’s frustrations and disappointments, (2) inculcating guilt feelings so that people (in despair, as it were) may turn to Christ, or (3) scaring people into repentance and conversion with stories about the horrors of hell.
David Bosch (Transforming Mission)
