Quotes about Engagement

Learning critical thinking is important not only for speaking to people outside the church but also for educating people on the inside

Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.

Lethargy is evident in churches when the people have no sense of ownership.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded.

to truly lead one's people one must also truly know them.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth

The summons to wakefulness is therefore a summons to attend to my agency.

To live is to function. That is all there is in living.

What we also need is a constructive overarching vision of Christian engagement in today's advanced modern world, one that is shaped by faith in God and a Christian perspective rather than by current wisdom, and one that can inspire Christians to move out with courage to confront the best and worst that we may encounter.

Our task is to focus on our individual callings in engaging with the world, to trust that others are following theirs too, and to leave to God the masterminding of the grand outcome.