Quotes from Leonard Sweet

Twenty-first-century people hear and learn differently than most churches communicate.

I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: "Jesus Christ lives here.

Philip Yancey was dead-on when he said that some Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.79

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

If you've never bled, you have no material for preaching. If when you're finished preaching you're not finished, spent, wiped out — if you haven't "given blood" — you haven't really preached.9

Worship is what you do when you've heard Jesus speak. A worship life is what you live when you walk with Jesus.

When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.

We don't preach the Scriptures; we let the Scriptures preach through us as they point to Christ.

Semiotic nudge is more about "Speak, Lord; your servant is listening" than it is "Listen, Lord; your servant is speaking."58

Disciples of Jesus do not mimic Jesus; we manifest him. We are personators of Christ, not impersonators. Christ's presence in our lives is more "thereness" than "likeness," more "withness" than "whatness." Jesus made our creation in the imago Dei more "spit" than "image" (as in "spit 'n' image").

Adam means "human." Eve means "life." A human needs another for "life" to come alive and become living. Identity can't grow ferally, only communally. We were meant to eat together, not solo. Eve's solitary eating is what got her in trouble.

Jesus Christ is the rest of God. He is, as N. T. Wright has put it, "the fulfillment of the sabbath."114 By taking Christ as our rest, we cease from our labors just as God did from His.115 Christianity, therefore, begins not with a do, but with a done—"It is finished!"116 We enter into God's rest, and we labor from there.