The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.
ALAN GREENBeing a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life.
More Alan Green Quotes
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Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?
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I’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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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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The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.
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But we’ve got all the language wrong and made this divide between secularism and spirituality, whereas instead it’s about being human.
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I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.
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As a parish priest of the Church Of England.
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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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And that’s not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they’ll go to hell.
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The language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time.
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It’s about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.
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Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life.
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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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Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.
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I think what we’re really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.
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