I think what we’re really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.
ALAN GREENI want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people.
More Alan Green Quotes
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I’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn’t in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that’s what kept me in the church.
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Here’s Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn’t look much taller than that
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I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.
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The bible is not a blueprint for every day of your life, it is an inspiration not a blueprint.
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That requires that we listen to one another and get challenged and grow by living with difference within the body of the church.
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You don’t score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.
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Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.
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I don’t know where this Arctic wind has come from but it’s freezing!
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And that’s not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they’ll go to hell.
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They care about their club, and that’s why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative
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Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions.
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Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead
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People do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that’s how it should be.
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That level of expectation that I’m going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church
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