Lesslie Newbigin Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• Mission begins with a kind of explosion of joy. The news that the
  rejected and crucified Jesus is alive is something that cannot possibly
  be suppressed. It must be told. Who could be silent about such a fact?
  The mission of the Church in the pages of the New Testament is like the
  fallout from a vast explosion, a radioactive fallout which is not lethal
  but life-giving.

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  Jesus, Giving, Joy

  Lesslie Newbigin (2014). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society”, p.156, SPCK

• The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the levers of power: it was won when the victims knelt down in the Colosseum and prayed in the name of Jesus for the Emperor.

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  Jesus, Names, Victory

  Lesslie Newbigin (1989). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society”, p.275, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• 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.

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  Home, People, Church

• 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.

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  Religious, Men, Order

  Lesslie Newbigin (1988). “Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture”, p.122, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Congregational life wherein each member has his opportunity to contribute to the life of the whole body, those gifts with which the Spirit endows him, is as much of the essence of the Church as are ministry and sacraments.

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  Christian, Opportunity, Essence

• 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.

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  Church, World, Earth

• The business of the church is to tell and embody a story

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  Church, Stories

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