I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppressed and where God Himself is at best an observer and certainly seldom, if ever, and obvious participant in church.
- James MacDonald
An overemphasis upon imminence in preaching has banished transcendence and tended to a theology of God being technically present as an observer but effectively absent as a participant. When