Home  Quotable Quotes
"The Ethic of discipleship is not guided by the goals it seeks to reach, but by the Lord it seeks to reflect. It is no more interested in `success´ or in `effectiveness´ than He."
J. Yoder, THE ORIGINAL REVOLUTION. Essays on Christian Pacifism |
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"We are witnessing all the time; the question is to whom are we witnessing and what is the testimony we are giving". |
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"We have to live and do our work in a manner that provokes the questions for which the Gospel is the answer.” |
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"The Church's role is not to develop a political mission and program. Yet the testimony of service to the needy undoubtedly has social and political dimensions. The concept of our responsibility as service will help us avoid falling into the 'Catholic temptation' of dominating the powers and imposing the Gospel from above”.
Samuel Escobar |
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"Christian worship that is not an expression of an entire work and life of commitment to service, compassion, and social justice is an act of hypocrisy”.
Robert Guerrero (Christian Community Church Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo, RD) |
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"It`s walking with God in a world that witnesses Christian churches being run more as businesses than as ministries. Mission efforts develop as enterprises instead of as serving-journeys, and Christians agencies concentrate on selling merchandise to the detriment of discipleship. Tours, cruises, and fairs take place in the name of the gospel, but our understanding of spiritual warfare reflects more a dualist worldview than an affirmation of God`s sovereignty. It`s walking with God humbly... serving, praying, sharing, and not executively, managerially, merchantly, aggressively, arrogantly, possessively.
V. Steuernagel, "Christian Social Responsability Today", from Journal of Latin American Theology 1 |
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"The fact that the Word became flesh explodes the belief that the spiritual can be separated from the material. Jesus is the Kingdom of God putting on sandals and walking."
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"In the Bible, worshipping God without a commitment to justice is a hypocrisy that God hates (Isaiah 1); proclaiming the Gospel and performing supernatural works without works of love for the needy is false spirituality (Matthew 7:25); and personal holiness without social service is empty religiosity".
Robert Guerrero, "The Parable of the Good Samaritan" (Christian Community Church Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo, RD) |
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"Undoubtedly, the national government has a serious responsibility toward the poor. However, given the inefficiency of the achieved results, it would be foolish to pretend that the government takes the lead in the march towards creative, constructive, and formative social action. We Christians ought to assume a much greater degree of responsibility in creating answers to the needs of the poor, compassionate and effective answers with a communitarian base. We ought to offer the leadership in this search. We need to commit ourselves personally to the task of promoting services for the poor in ways that reaffirm their dignity and reflect God's love and care”.
John Perkins |
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"Concretely and historically, in the life and action of our Lord Jesus Christ we see both the perspective of the Church's mission and this mission in its totality. Our Lord's life provides the determined and defining vantage point of this mission. Christ anticipated this perspective of the Church's mission in his high priestly intercessory prayer, 'As you have sent me to the world, so I have sent them into the world'".
John Stott |
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"Undoubtedly, the national government has a serious responsibility toward the poor. However, given the inefficiency of the achieved results, it would be foolish to pretend that the government takes the lead in the march towards creative, constructive, and formative social action. We Christians ought to assume a much greater degree of responsibility in creating answers to the needs of the poor, compassionate and effective answers with a communitarian base. We ought to offer the leadership in this search. We need to commit ourselves personally to the task of promoting services for the poor in ways that reaffirm their dignity and reflect God's love and care”.
John Perkins |
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