Quotes about Engagement

When rival worldviews are in play, it is not adaptation that is called for but confrontation: confrontation

Preaching is one thing—and it is crucial. But hearing is another thing—and it is just as crucial.

Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.

The average person can speak about 150 words per minute, but the average mind can understand about 350 words per minute—that is a 200-word per minute boredom factor.

You're not all that God has called you to be, as a follower of Jesus, if you're missions-minded but not engaged in God's mission here and now.

I look upon the world as my parish.

Listen if you want to be heard

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

I can begin to love the dried ink marks on the page more than I love the encounters that gave rise to them. If I am not careful, I can decide that I am really much happier reading my Bible than I am entering into what God is doing in my own time and place, since shutting the book to go outside will involve the very great risk of taking part in stories that are still taking shape.

Week after week, I was permitted to stand up in special clothes and talk while everyone else sat quietly and listened. Week after week, they heard the gospel filtered through my sensibilities. On Sunday mornings they sang the hymns I had chosen, and on Wednesday evenings they engaged the topics I had picked.

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, You have to be in their lives today.