| | Hey, I'm finally back after a month and a half...just don't expect anything else for a while. Having to keep a daily log for my internship leaves my blogging motivation pretty low most days. Anyway, a couple weeks ago I went to an excellent seminar called "Don't Stop Loving the Church." The speakers were Kevin DeYoung and Tim Kluck (who together wrote the book Why We're not Emergent: by Two Guys Who Should Be) and Mike Wittmer (a prof at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary).
Rather than tell you all about the conference I thought I'd just share some of my favorite quotes/paraphrases from it. Disclaimer - These may not be word perfect since they're from my notes/memory and I'm afraid I don't remember exactly which speaker said them (I think most of them were DeYoung)...but without further ado, here are my favorite insightful (or at least entertaining) quotes:
- "When you harshly criticize the church you're dissin' Jesus girlfriend!"
- "We need fewer revolutionaries and more plodding visionaries."
- "Leaving the church to find God is primarily a white yuppie affectation"
- " 'social justice' [as practiced by many 'revolutionaries'] often involves nothing more than advocacy and feeling guilty for being middle class."
- "If all we focus on is societal change, where is our uniqueness?"
- "We want to eliminate suffering wherever possible. Especially eternal suffering."
- “Does the presence of crime in a neighborhood mean the police are irrelevant?” [response to saying the church is irrelevant because there are problems in society]
- "Well, since we already had someone say 'butt' from this pulpit -us Baptists always say 'bottom'- I suppose it's okay that we're having a raffle in the foyer."
- "...and you all get together after church for a potprovidence..."
- Preaching/teaching/acknowledging the doctrine of original sin goes a long way toward explaining why “the church is full of hypocrites.”
- What's going to make an impact is us visibly allowing Christianity to truly impact how we live (rather than us trying to look cool/almost exactly like the culture at large) |
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