Top 18 Andrew Root Quotes
#1. We are the relationships that make us; we have our being in and through relationships that place us into reality, and therefore we are open ontologically to the possibility of encounter.
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#2. The point of the mission trip is to invite young people to act in ways that witness to the promise of God's action, which will make all things new.
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#3. Grace is costly because it calls us through our person to the person of Jesus Christ. And when we follow the person of Jesus Christ, when we follow his call through our person, we're sent to act for the concrete person of our neighbor in the world.
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#4. A mission trip in youth ministry is not about bringing the resurrection; It is about witnessing to the resurrection.
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#5. But if faith is only for the future, there will be no faith, for like manna, faith saved spoils.
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#6. Theology starts with a crisis, the very crisis of reality itself. The crisis is the fact that you live, that you have a life to live. ... The crisis is the very mystery of our existence and the yearning for there to be some kind of meaning to it.
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#7. Apathy sets in when our passion for the future is miscarried.
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#8. Paul connects faith and hope. Rather than saying young people have faith if they believe without doubt, it might be better to say they have faith if, up against doubt, fear, and struggle, they hope.
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#9. It was not so much rebellion that fueled the German youth movement (as it did in the American youth movement of the 1960s); rather, it was romanticism.
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#10. Ministry is about joining God where God can be found.
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#11. The resurrection is the promise that death will not prevail, that nothingness does not have the last word. God promises to overcome it with life ... We can trust that God will overcome death because Jesus is the resurrection, because on the third day Jesus rose again, as the first of many.
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#12. Practical theology is the need to interpret the "where" of Jesus Christ in our experiences of the now.
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#13. In true relationships, the only point is to be together. Once there is another point, the relationship withers under the heat of expectations and obligations.
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#14. It is when we are up against death, when we find ourselves in despair, that the God of cross is near to us. It is through suffering and despair that God is made known to us, for God is found on the cross.
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#15. Friendship means we are obligated to one another, but obligated in a way that doesn't destroy our freedom.
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#16. Youth ministry is not about getting things accomplished - only the act of God can bring about the transformation we seek. Youth ministry is about participating deeply in young people's lives as we await, together in suffering & joy, the coming of God.
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#17. The Church may have a building, but that is not its place. The building may be the church's location, but its space is in the shared humanity of its persons.
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#18. we become incarnational witnesses, people who must use our own lives to "put wheels on the gospel
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