Lesslie Newbigin Quotes
Live in the kingdom of God in such a way that it provokes questions for which the gospel is the answer.
The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship.
It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.
Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel.
It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis.
The Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ's witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a mission to the ends of the earth.
Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.
The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.
The living God is a God of justice and mercy and He will be satisfied with nothing less than a people in whom his justice and mercy are alive.
The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which the human situation is irreversibly changed.
Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before.
The attempt to interpret human behavior in terms of models derived from the natural sciences eventually destroys personal responsibility.
Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.
When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign of the kingdom.
The resurrection was not the reversal of a defeat but the manifestation of a victory.