Friday, October 19, 2007

trolls and truth

here's a great quote from a book I'm currently reading:
"Missions is not an action of a handful of global church advocates in a foreign land, but the loving drive of the God who is a missionary God reclaiming all of His creation from the inner cities to the suburbs to the ends of the earth. Biblical justice is not sending money to a hunger organization at thanksgiving, but collectively working to overturn the systemic patterns that cause the haves to have more and the have-nots to sink further into poverty. Evangelism is not slipping a four spiritual laws tract under the dinner plate as a tip to the unsaved waitress. It is building a caring relationship with her and her family which emanates Christ's compassion. Worship is not lifting hands to God alone, but lifting the downtrodden and rejected as well."

thanks to the leblanc family for this slammin book!!!!

4 comments:

Carole Turner said...

good stuff!

leah said...

i LOVE that quote. so true. "collectively working to overturn the systemic patterns that cause the haves to have more and the have-nots to sink further into poverty". . . mmmmmm preaccchhhhh

Shawn Wilson said...

Preach it baby!!!

A-TRAIN said...

hey this is austin i got a blog now. and is that book cool?