Bryan

“I came to see my four-star inexperience not as a weakness but as a superpower. My inexperience enabled me to look critically at every step of service and to interrogate the only thing that mattered: the guests’ experience. Did a rule bring us closer to our ultimate goal, which was connecting with people? Or did it take us further from it?”
― Will Guidara, Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

“The UNDERGROUND knew we had to build something that affirmed that every Christian in every context is being called by God to proclaim the coming of his kingdom. Our work, then, should be to help people listen to and obey that call. For those who have already heard it, our job is to give them permission to pursue their call with abandon.”
― Brian Sanders, Underground Church: A Living Example of the Church in Its Most Potent Form

“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.”
― John Piper

“aversion is the tendency to dislike and distrust those who disagree with us politically, particularly those in a different political party. This aversion is toxic for our politics, but as we’ve seen, it creeps into the communion of believers as well. The very thing that ought to make Christians identifiable to the world—our love for one another (John 13:35)—is overridden by our politics, thus undermining the testimony of our faith.”
― Michael Wear, The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life