So Beautiful Post #2
As I mentioned yesterday I have been reading So Beautiful by Leonard Sweet and it is filled to the brim with all kinds of thought provoking quotes, ideas, concepts, and theology. There is so much in the introduction itself that instead of taking one post for the introduction, I need to have 2. In fact I believe I might have to post 2 parts for each chapter (Introduction, Missional Life, Relational Life, Incarnational Life, Epilogue) this book is that full of great stuff.
Here are some more quotes from the book that really spoke to me.
"Everyone is dispatched to be a missionary. Your baptism is your commissioning as a missionary."
"The church is to reach out both with the good news and as the good news. We as a community are the good news (or are supposed to be)."
"When we attempt to lay a new template (MRI) on top of an existing structure that was built for something else, Fritz warns, we will eventually return to the 'path of least resistance', the path that the underlying structure was designed to accomplish. But 'with an appropriate change in the underlying structure of your life, the path of least resistance cannot lead anywhere except in the direction you really want to go.' A change that can succeed is one that changes the path of least resistance, and this is made possible only by a true structural redesign."
"Missional is the mind of God. Mission is where God's head's at.
Relational is the heart of God. Relationship is where God's heart is.
Incarnational is the hands of God. Incarnation is what God's hands are up to."
"Christianity is about a design for living as authentic human beings: a trialectical process of missionalizing, relationalizing, and incarnationalizing your life and community."
"that a trifecta of truth comprised of a missional God, a relational Son, and an incarnational Spirit is what makes orthodox Christianity distinctive and is at the heart of Christian exceptionalism....... each one of these 'distinctives' is what is scandalous about orthodox Christianity to other religions."
Tomorrow I will share a little about the second chapter: the missional life.
Here are some more quotes from the book that really spoke to me.
"Everyone is dispatched to be a missionary. Your baptism is your commissioning as a missionary."
"The church is to reach out both with the good news and as the good news. We as a community are the good news (or are supposed to be)."
"When we attempt to lay a new template (MRI) on top of an existing structure that was built for something else, Fritz warns, we will eventually return to the 'path of least resistance', the path that the underlying structure was designed to accomplish. But 'with an appropriate change in the underlying structure of your life, the path of least resistance cannot lead anywhere except in the direction you really want to go.' A change that can succeed is one that changes the path of least resistance, and this is made possible only by a true structural redesign."
"Missional is the mind of God. Mission is where God's head's at.
Relational is the heart of God. Relationship is where God's heart is.
Incarnational is the hands of God. Incarnation is what God's hands are up to."
"Christianity is about a design for living as authentic human beings: a trialectical process of missionalizing, relationalizing, and incarnationalizing your life and community."
"that a trifecta of truth comprised of a missional God, a relational Son, and an incarnational Spirit is what makes orthodox Christianity distinctive and is at the heart of Christian exceptionalism....... each one of these 'distinctives' is what is scandalous about orthodox Christianity to other religions."
Tomorrow I will share a little about the second chapter: the missional life.
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