Quotes about Relevance

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. That is the way Jesus came to reveal God's love. The great message that we have to carry, as ministers of God's Word and followers of Jesus, is that God loves us not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love and has chosen us to proclaim that love as the true source of all human life.

The Christian leader cannot simply be persons who have well informed opinions about the burning issues of our time.

Jesus' first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation that allows them to enter into a deep solidarity with the anguish underlying all the glitter of success, and to bring the light of Jesus there.

The Bible has been trapped in modernity. Everything has to work perfectly. And if everything doesn't fit in a Lego-oriented functionality, then we don't deal with it as Christians.

Fighters now, they think you have to trash talk to be marketable. Yet so much of what they're saying, it bores me.

What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.

I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it.

There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man's ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn't you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority.

Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.

Truth never appeals to us unless it is personal.

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.