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What we know as the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” comes as a response not just to eight clergy but to a certain approach to religion (Christianity) that was focused more on law and order than the demands of the gospel.
“If God’s purpose for your job is that you serve the human community, then the way to serve God best is to do the job as well as it can be done.”
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work
“The future of Christian social witness cannot assume the gospel, but must articulate it explicitly and coherently.”
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
“The wilderness where faith can thrive is the very desert where it can dry up and die if we are not watchful.”
― The Land Between: Finding God in Difficult Transitions
― The Land Between: Finding God in Difficult Transitions
“A church that loses its distinctiveness is a church that has nothing distinctive with which to engage the culture. A worldly church is of no good to the world.”
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
“A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.”
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
― Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
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