Quotes About Emerging Church

#1. The emerging church, reformed according to the needs of self-esteem-starved-souls under the Lordship of Christ ... will help us to affirm the concept that 'While god's ideas may seem humanly impossible, he will give us these ideas which will lead to glorious, self-esteem-generating success.

Robert H. Schuller

#2. And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.

Doug Pagitt

#3. So, the emerging church is about a re-imagining: re-imagining our preaching, our evangelism, and our worship services. A re-imagining of new types of churches and an opportunity to be rethinking all we do because we recognize that the next generation is at stake if we don't.

Dan Kimball

#4. Emerging church leaders are not impressed by those who defend the Christian faith by promoting definitive answers to convince those who doubt the faith.

Eddie Gibbs

#5. In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#6. But the only thing of value the church has to offer is the gospel. I believe that one result of the emerging Experience Economy will be a longing for authenticity. To the extent that the church stages worldly experiences, it will lose its effectiveness.

Skye Jethani

#7. Let us keep in mind that we do not have to go to the scriptures inorder to approach God. We do not have to find the right scripture inorder to talk to God.

Thurman L. Faison

#8. Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture.

Edwin A. Locke

#9. It doesn't matter what you feel. Just know the feelings are real. ~

Brittainy C. Cherry

#10. Martyr says: "Life is pain." Trickster says: "Life is interesting.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#11. The wheel of ka turns and the world moves on.

Stephen King

#12. Dad never went to church. Here, in waning rain and emerging sunshine, was his church. It was the abiding experience of the day, converted in the instant into boundless existential expression -- bold, cold, subtle, warm, fleeting and timeless -- a dance of natural opposites.

George Heuston

#13. Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around.

Jamie Wyeth

#14. Tyrants are obvious, and easy to identify. It is the well entrenched and corrupt establishment that is truly insidious.

A.E. Samaan

#15. The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.

Tim Powers

#16. If my brain can ttell the difference between noise and signal, my heart cannot.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#17. Better hazard once than always be in fear.

Thomas Fuller

#18. I don't mean I give the same intensity to everything I do - if I did that, I'd be dead, but I'm very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what's happening in my life.

David Toop

#19. It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring - with immense, even startling power.

Raymond Carver