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.- Lesslie Newbigin@LesslieNewbigin
“The church did not begin that day, and it is incorrect to call the Day of Pentecost ‘the birthday of the church’. For the church as the people of God goes back at least 4,000 years to Abraham. What happened at Pentecost was that the remnants of God’s people became the Spirit-filled body of Christ.” John Stott
Brexit is a function of the European political classes' failure to persuade ordinary people of the desirability, or even the plausibility, of the project—even though they have had nearly fifty years to do so.- Carl Trueman, https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/06/brexit-did-not-cause-brexit
I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence. —C.S. Lewis
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