discipl·ish Quotes

“IT COMES FROM the Latin vocare, to call, and means the work a man is called to by God. There are all different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work, and the problem is to find out which is the voice of God rather than of Society, say, or the Super-ego, or Self-interest.”
― Mike Duran, discipl·ish: My Unconventional Pilgrimage thru Faith, Art, & Evangelical Culture

“It’s led me to believe that one of the surest signs of a dysfunctional church is perpetual navel gazing. When everything is about us—our theology, our pastor, our building, our ministries, our finances—something is sure to go wrong.”
― Mike Duran, discipl·ish: My Unconventional Pilgrimage thru Faith, Art, & Evangelical Culture

“As long as miracles are possible, plenty of weird, wacky, unexplained ones will happen. And this is what most of us don’t like. We want to box God in, slip a spiritual condom on so we don’t contract Pentecostalism.”
― Mike Duran, discipl·ish: My Unconventional Pilgrimage thru Faith, Art, & Evangelical Culture

“I took up reading fiction again. Part of this was due to the fact that some of my favorite Christian writers (like C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton) wrote fiction. This was surprising, mainly because fiction was not a main staple of most of the pastors I knew. In fact, the consensus seemed to be that reading fiction was a waste of time. What pastors needed was books on theology, pastoral counseling, and administration, not fairy tales and outer space adventures. However, I discovered just the opposite--reading fiction stoked my imagination. Good stories spoke in ways that exposition and data could not. As some have said, 'thou shalt not' speaks to the head, but 'once upon a time' speaks to the heart. Reinforcing this was the fact that Jesus, the greatest teacher ever, was a prolific storyteller.”
― Mike Duran, discipl·ish: My Unconventional Pilgrimage thru Faith, Art, & Evangelical Culture