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#1

“Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes." (quoting Jack Gilbert)”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

tags: courage, creativity

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#2

“Because we are invited to be part of God's new creation now, we seek to embody the identity we have been given in Christ. . . . We engage in mission to establish friendships that lead to the formation of a new people in the world.”
― Emmanuel Katongole, Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith After Genocide in Rwanda

tags: identity, incarnation, incarnational-ministry, mission

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#3

“The church's primary purpose is not to make America more Christian, but to make American Christians less American and Rwandan Christians less Rwandan. We are no longer Rwandans or Americans, neither Hutu nor Tutsi. If we are in Christ, we have become part of a new creation.”
― Emmanuel Katongole, Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith After Genocide in Rwanda

tags: church, incarnation-quotes, nationalism, new-creation

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#4

“The story that the church has been telling for two thousand years is an outrageous tale about a man who was executed by the state but rose up from the dead. The crux of the story isn't that Jesus figured out the right answer to all the questions facing Israel in his day. What makes all the difference is that Jesus defeated the ultimate enemy and got up from the dead.”
― Emmanuel Katongole, Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith After Genocide in Rwanda

tags: church, cross, resurrection-of-christ

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#5

“To live as the body of Christ in such a time as this is to reimagine what it means to remember and embody that story of resurrection.”
― Emmanuel Katongole, Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith After Genocide in Rwanda

tags: incarnational-communities, incarnational-ministry, resurrection-of-christ, resurrection-of-jesus

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#6

“How long, O God, will we go on with a mock Christianity that takes the tribalism of our world for granted?

How long, O God, will we be satisfied with the way things are?

How long, O God, will we try to "make some difference in the world" while leaving the basic patterns of the world unaffected?

How long, O God will we take consolation in numbers, buildings, and structures, when millions of your children are dying?

How long, O Sovereign Lord, will we remain blind to the lessons of history?”
― Emmanuel Katongole, Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith After Genocide in Rwanda

tags: church-life, lament, prayer

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#7

“We are called to be strange in the same way that the early Christian communities were strange to the world around them. The community in Antioch brought together Jews and Samaritans, Greeks and Romans, slaves and free, men and women in a way that was so confusing that people didn't know what to call them. So they called them "Christians." The only way they knew to describe their peculiar actions was to say that they were followers of an odd preacher from Galilee.

The world is longing for such new and odd communities in our time. . . . I pray the time is now and that the resurrection might begin in us.”
― Emmanuel Katongole, Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith After Genocide in Rwanda

tags: church, incarnation, resurrection-of-jesus, resurrection-power, unity

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#8

“To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time and God's time, of the then, and the now, and the not yet--is to understand how those emotions are to be held within the rhythm of a life lived in God's presence.”
― N.T. Wright, The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential

tags: emotions, god-s-presence, psalms

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#9

“To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal patterns. A poem is not merely ordinary thought with a few turns and twiddles added on to make it pretty or memorable. A poem (a good poem, at least) uses its poetic form to probe deeper into human experience than ordinary speech or writing is usually able to do, to pull back a veil and allow the hearer or reader to sense other dimensions.”
― N.T. Wright, The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential

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#10

“A subtle reason for apathy is that justice rarely has much to do with our lives. Unless we've personally been victims of injustice, we can take for granted that life is generally fair.”
― Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things

tags: apathy, fairness, justice

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#11

“Apathy is sustainable only as long as injustice doesn't harm us--and we don't care that it's harming others. Apathy lasts only until injustice knocks on our door, and we're forced to look into its eyes.”
― Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things

tags: apathy, injustice, justice

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#12

“At the end of the day--of almost any day, regardless of what we have done or left undone--apathy tells us that it's perfectly acceptable to live with illusions of our own justice.”
― Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things

tags: apathy, injustice, justice

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#13

“Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum qtd. in Halter)”
― Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things

tags: apathy, bystander, justice

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#14

“We may not choose apathy, but when we choose anything other than love and empathetic justice, we get apathy by default.”
― Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things

tags: apathy, justice, love

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#15

“Injustice is a cold, unrelenting reality. It can be tempting for us to use our comfort to ignore injustice or rationalize it away. But God would have us join His work.”
― Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things

tags: comfort, injustice, justice

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#16

“Justice is the state that exists when there is equity, balance, and harmony in relationships and in society. Injustice is the state that exists when unjust people do violence to peace and shalom and create inequity, imbalance, and dissonance.”
― Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things

tags: equity, harmony, inequity, injustice, justice, relationship, shalom, violence

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#17

“. . . those who invoke YHWH as the judge of all must themselves live in the light of that coming judgment.”
― N.T. Wright, The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential

tags: jdgment, judge

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#18

“Shalom is communal, holistic, and tangible. There is no private or partial shalom. The whole community must have shalom or no one has shalom. As long as there are hungry people in a community that is well fed, there can be no shalom. . . . Shalom is not for the many, while a few suffer; nor is it for the few while many suffer. It must be available for everyone.”
― Randy S. Woodley

tags: community, hunger, justice, shalom

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#19

“Shalom is not a utopian destination; it is a constant journey.”
― Randy S. Woodley

tags: shalom, utopia

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#20

“God commands both individuals and the society in which they live to be generous and always take care of the poor. In such a community, shalom has a chance to thrive. In such a community, God will actually be glad to assign his name and dwell.”
― Randy S. Woodley

tags: generosity, poor, shalom

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#21

“Shalom is meant to be both personal (emphasizing our relationships with others) and structural (replacing systems where shalom has been broken or which produce broken shalom, such as war-or greed-driven economic systems). In shalom, the old structures and systems are replaced with new structures and new systems.”
― Randy S. Woodley

tags: economics-philosophy, shalom, structural-inequality

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#22

“A society concerned with shalom will care for the most marginalized among them. God has a special concern for the poor and needy, because how we treat them reveals our hearts, regardless of the rhetoric we employ to make ourselves sound just.”
― Randy S. Woodley

tags: marginalized, oppressed, poor, shalom, society

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#23

“The call of community isn't about finding people just like us, or at the exclusion of any people. Community in the biblical sense is clearly about unlike people finding Christ at the center of their inclusive life together. Thus, issues of community reflect powerful dynamics of how God brings very diverse people together for his glory and his witness in the world.”
― Hugh Halter & Matt Smay, The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community

tags: community, diversity, inclusive

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#24

“Justice doesn't have a finish line, and neither does education. We never reach a point where we cannot learn, where ceasing to learn would make us, or the world, better. It takes perseverance to walk the road of justice, and we cannot know where or when--or if--it will end for us.”
― Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things

tags: education, justice

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#25

“Learning to change the world is rarely easy or convenient--it can be complex, costly, and messy.”
― Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things

tags: change, justice

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#26

“Education is a means, not an end. We don't enroll in formal education ad nauseam as a way of escaping life. Rather, we educate ourselves in order to become equipped to respond wisely to God's calling.”
― Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things

tags: education, equipping, justice

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#27

“. . . we are all giving our lives away--the only question is, to what? We spend ourselves on television, money, power, sex, leisure, adventure, and fame. They are a bad investment. If we look for life by spending ourselves here, we look in vain.”
― Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things

tags: justice, sacrifice-for-others

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#28

“Our lives are bound up with the lives of others. Our joy is bound up with the joy of others.”
― Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things

tags: joy, surrender

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#29

“The kingdom of God is an upside-down kingdom. It beckons us to gamble all, to trust radically, to come and die so that we might live--to give our lives away. Giving life away is a paradox. It's losing so we can win. It's giving so we can receive. It's risking for security. It's faith. The kingdom of God means living that tension.”
― Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things

tags: kingdom-of-god, paradox, sacrifice, surrender

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#30

“Myth is not about whether something is fact or fiction; myth is more about truth. Good myth, according to the old adage, is about something that continues to be true again and again, over time.”
― Randy S. Woodley

tags: fact, myth, truth

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