Quotes about Engagement

I look at it this way. I'm not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder.

As for Mr. Meredith, said Miss Cornelia, even his engagement has made a different man of him. He isn't half so dreamy and absent-minded, believe me. I was so relieved when I heard that he had decided to close the manse and let the children visit round while he was away on his honeymoon. If he had left them and old Aunt Martha there alone for a month I should have expected to wake every morning and see the place burned down.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.

Knowledge of God is knowledge of living with God. Israel's religious existence consists of three inner attitudes: engagement to the living God to whom we are accountable; engagement to Torah where His voice is audible; and engagement to His concern as expressed in mitsvot (commandments).

Unless we are involved, the problem is not present.

The role of religion is to be a challenge to philosophy, not merely an object for examination.

So a working definition of missional church is a community of God's people that defines itself, and organizes its life around, its real purpose of being an agent of God's mission to the world.

Left to their own devices, most organizations tend toward a sort of sociological conservatism that will increasingly forgo engagement with their context in favor of preserving what they see as their repository of inherited ideas. In other words, they turn away from missional engagement and toward an increasingly traditionalist, sentimental interpretation of reality. Instead of looking forward to a possible future of which they are called to be a part, they look back to an idealized past.

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

The church is church only when it is there for others.