Leonard Sweet Quotes About Jesus

Quotes about: Jesus

• If your identity is found in Christ, then it matters less and less what people think of you.

  Leonard Sweet

  Jesus, Thinking, People

  Leonard Sweet (2014). “The Well-Played Life: Why Pleasing God Doesn't Have to Be Such Hard Work”, p.116, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here.

  Leonard Sweet

  Jesus, Writing, Heart

• One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna. A globalization of evangelism 'in connection' with others, and a globally 'in-formed' gospel, is capable of talking across the fence with Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Muslim - people from other so called 'new' religious traditions ('new' only to us) - without assumption of superiority and power

  Leonard Sweet

  Religious, Sweet, Jesus

• God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business.

  Leonard Sweet

  Jesus, Church, Missionary

  Leonard Sweet (2009). “So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church”, p.55, David C Cook

• Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.

  Leonard Sweet

  Teamwork, Jesus, Ministry

• It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For?, 1989 Jesus pioneered a relationship ethic based on compassion. Being a disciple means building relationships - with the Creator and with all creation and creatures.

  Leonard Sweet

  Jesus, Mean, Animal

• Energy-fire experiences take us into ourselves only that we might reach outside of ourselves. Metanoia is a de-centering experience of connected-ness and community. It is not an exercise in reciting what Jesus has done for me lately. Energy-fire ecstasy, more a buzz than a binge, takes us out of ourselves, literally. That is the meaning of the word 'ecstatic.'

  Leonard Sweet

  Jesus, Exercise, Fire

• One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna

  Leonard Sweet

  Sweet, Jesus, Faithful

• Followers of Jesus don’t so much see different things from anyone else as they see the same things differently.

  Leonard Sweet

  Jesus, Different, Followers

• When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes - 'time to save the world!'

  Leonard Sweet

  Jesus, Retirement, Thinking

• The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are not Bible stories that we learn; these are our stories.

  Leonard Sweet

  Jesus, Teaching, Stories

  Leonard Sweet (2001). “SoulTsunami: Sink Or Swim in New Millennium Culture”, p.426, Zondervan

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