Found the following quote, attributed to Mike Yaconelli on a blog I was surfing at work today. I loved this one. Really, there are few Yaconelli quotes I haven't loved, but I thought this one was timely to a number of things I've been thinking about lately.
"I would like to suggest that the Church become a place of terror again; a place where God continually has to tell us, 'Fear not'; a place where our relationship with God is not a simple belief or a doctrine or theology, it is God's burning presence in our lives. I am suggesting that the tame God of relevance be replaced by the God whose very presence shatters our egos into dust, burns our sin into ashes, and strips us naked to reveal the real person within. The Church needs to become a gloriously dangerous place where nothing is safe in God's presence except us. Nothing--including our plans, our agendas, our priorities, our politics, our money, our security, our comfort, our possessions, our needs."
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
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