Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life.
ALAN GREENAs a parish priest of the Church Of England.
More Alan Green Quotes
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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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The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.
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I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.
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It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.
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A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence
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It’s about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.
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The language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time.
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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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Here’s Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn’t look much taller than that
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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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I’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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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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I don’t know where this Arctic wind has come from but it’s freezing!
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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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Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn’t playing
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Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.
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As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church’s role in losing people.
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John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on
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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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People do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that’s how it should be.
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I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s.
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Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like.
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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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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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John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul
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