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“Quite simply, the Church is not a movie theater. It does not need a “silver screen” in order to be more relatable to modern people. A movie theater is a place where we collectively sit down to watch the unreal, the made up, the world of drama, fantasy, and pretend. We watch these dramas, comedies, or adventures to be moved to tears, to laughter, or to an adrenaline high. We watch them in order to be manipulated into feeling something that is out of the ordinary – something that we want to feel at that particular moment. We are complicit in this, of course. We pay our money for the privilege of having our emotions manipulated by this world of make believe.”
― Anonymous

“Belief to Jesus was more than simply acceptance of a creed; it was an acceptance of a lifestyle, and a willingness to follow His path even in spite of family preference, obstacles, suffering, or even death.”
― Anonymous

“I have found this to be true in my own ministry. As a church we often put ourselves in the client position, offering to help those who are poor. We serve meals to the poor, but seldom eat with the poor, or acknowledge that we are the poor, or embrace the poor as us and vice versa. One reason I love the Sunday Suppers program that an ecumenical group of churches organizes here in Fayetteville is because, at least in theory, it is supposed to be a community meal, with everyone eating together. However, all of us find that in practice it is harder to break out of the scripts we inhabit. It is easier as church people to go serve the meal than it is to go and just eat the meal. And vice versa, those who go to eat the meal are not as likely to help serve the meal, because they are playing their part in the script.”
― Anonymous

“If Lutheranism is to be Lutheran, we must recapture our comfort level with the catholic shape of our identity and this means learning not to run instinctively from words like the Mass or from the sacramental practice of our baptismal life in private confession.”
― Anonymous

“Luther's teaching was recognised by thousands to be no startling novelty, but something which they had always at heart believed,”
― Thomas M. Lindsay, A History of the Reformation, Volume 1 of 2

“We serve the world as one beggar telling other beggars where we found bread.”
― Chuck Collins, Anglicans in America

“But the assumption that more elaborate worship ceremony and ritual, grounded in ancient tradition would correct that failing, is itself a mistaken direction and a false remedy.”
― Anonymous