Ministry of the Church (149)
  1. We pray for God to deliver us from ourselves. To forgive us, for Jesus’s sake, when we do evil.
  2. Christianity is not a solo endeavor. Not a private relationship between Jesus and me.
  3. On a recurring basis, Christians spot news headlines that signal yet one more moral collapse in society, the growing paganization of the cultures in which we live, the spread of antipathy toward the faith.
  4. The God who calls us to love our neighbor as ourselves will seem hopelessly out of touch with your insulated life of self-sufficiency.
  5. A single, fifteen minute sermon that proclaims Christ and him crucified for you is more important than hundreds of hours of lectures by experts on revitalizing your ministry.
  6. The table is full-laden; feast ye all sumptuously. The calf is fatted; let no one go hungry away.
  7. The preacher does not merely send out the raven. From the pulpit flies forth the dove of the Gospel.
  8. Hers is not a beauty of breathtaking cathedrals, stained glass, or towering arches, but of a body.
  9. Old Testament narratives foreshadowed the gifts that our Father gives us in baptism.
  10. Sometimes we try be the bad god, sometimes the good god, oftentimes a freaky hybrid of both. The result is the same: Jesus the savior just gets in our way.
  11. If the devil took over a church, I suspect it would be bursting at the seams every Sunday, with smiling faces, clean noses, straight morals, conservative voting, institutional fidelity
  12. In those waters we are nailed to his cross and washed out the door of his tomb. Within his wounds we safely hide.
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