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The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.


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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.



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The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.



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Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.



Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.



Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.



We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.



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We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.



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Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.



The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.



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Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.





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