Paul Sparks
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“mission is defined as what you do to join in God’s world-renewing project.”
― The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community
― The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community
“Loving without agenda: Often our neighborhoods are filled with special interest groups. The church is not a special interest group; rather we have a reconciling mission that seeks unity, that all might flourish. Consider how your faith community can champion what others are already doing.”
― The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community
― The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community
“To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.”
― The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community
― The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community
“For too long we’ve closed ourselves to the participatory life of our senses, inured ourselves to the felt intelligence of our muscled flesh and its manifold solidarities. We’ve taken our primary truths from technologies that hold the world at a distance. Such tools can be mighty useful, and beneficial as well, as long as the insights that they yield are carried carefully back to the lived world, and placed in service to the more-than-human matrix of corporeal encounter and experience. But technology can also, and easily, be used as a way to avoid direct encounter, as a shield—etched”
― Becoming Animal
― Becoming Animal
“The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“The contemporary sedentary is someone who feels at home everywhere, thanks to cellphones, and the nomad is someone who does not feel at home anywhere, someone who is excluded, ostracized.”
― The Administration of Fear
― The Administration of Fear
“Humanity might bless earth--if we work with and for creation, if we master our selfishness in service to all our neighbors, if we cultivate wildness as a kind of wealth.”
― The Future of Ethics: Sustainability, Social Justice, and Religious Creativity
― The Future of Ethics: Sustainability, Social Justice, and Religious Creativity