Quotes about Engagement

What counts in evangelism is not cognition, but recognition. Can

The church doesn't lose its kids when they go to college. We start losing them in middle school. We lose children in the church when we send them out of worship to children's church or Sunday school. This is one reason why Jesus kept insisting, "Let the little children come to me."[222

preachertainment"?

We are what we do with our attention."64

And what is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversation?

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort, she had said, so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?

For the Congregation this new movement involves the danger of learning to think that the Services are done for them; and that their bodily presence is all they need contribute. And, for Clergy and Congregation alike, it involves the danger of regarding these elaborate Services as ends in themselves, and of forgetting that they are simply means, and the very hollowest of mockeries, unless they bear fruit in our lives.

If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.

We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.