Brian D. McLaren Quotes
The life-and-death question for each of our churches and denominations may boil down to this: are we a club for the elite who pretend to have arrived or a school for disciples who are still on the way?
Quotes to Explore
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With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.
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The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.
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Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.
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Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.
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Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.
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Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.
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To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.
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It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.
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Churches, synagogues, and mosques should be treated the same.
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Churches typically argue is that God wants God's people to have a good life, and that a good life involves prosperity. This prosperity is not just emotional well-being, spiritual well-being, or physical well-being - it's also having good stuff. Having a nice house, a nice car, good clothing, etc. It's a package deal.
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When Jesus said, “As the Father has sent Me, I also send you” (John 20:21), the mandate was not for a select group of cross-cultural missionaries. It was a commission to you, to me, and to our churches. We have a sender (Jesus), a message (the gospel), and a people to whom we are sent (those in our culture). It is worth the effort to go beyond personal preferences and attractional methods to proclaim the gospel in our church services and outside the walls.
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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
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You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.
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The life-and-death question for each of our churches and denominations may boil down to this: are we a club for the elite who pretend to have arrived or a school for disciples who are still on the way?
