Barbara Brown Taylor on church
Barbara Brown Taylor78 quotes“To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.”
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Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I’ve relaxed enormously since then. I’m the one who gets to say that, and not someone else.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices…. Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life possible if we choose to live it now.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that’s entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor We’re children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We’re also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you’re into a different kind of relationship.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor God does some of God’s best work with people who are seriously lost.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Humanity can be pretty stinky.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes…swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I didn’t want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that were never in the realm of possible things to do before. That was a real desert experience for me.
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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Alan HirschAlan Hirsch The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
Alan HirschAlan Hirsch If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
Alan HirschAlan Hirsch Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
Alan ChambersAlan Chambers Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
Alan HirschAlan Hirsch The language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time.
Alan GreenAlan Green Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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