Revolution in the Church: Challenging the Religious System with a Call for Radical Change by Brown Michael L

Author:Brown, Michael L. [Brown, Michael L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Church renewal.
Publisher: Kirkdale Press
Published: 2013-03-25T00:00:00+00:00

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Going Outside the Camp

THE PRICE OF BEING A PIONEER

God always reserved a seed for himself; a few that worshipped in spirit and in truth. I have often doubted, whether these were not the very persons whom the rich and honourable Christians, who will always have number as well as power on their side, did not stigmatize, from time to time, with the title of heretics.

John Wesley from his sermon “The Wisdom of God’s Counsels”

To organized opposition he [Jesus] responds with the formal founding of a new social reality. New teachings are no threat, as long as the teacher stands alone; a movement, extending his personality in both time and space, presenting an alternative to the structures that were there before, challenges the system as no mere words ever could.

John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus

A man who starts changing the system is dangerous.… When a man starts shaking up the religious, political, and social system, the people in the system feel that they have to stop him.

Tom Skinner, Words of Revolution

Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it.… Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in.… He never lost sight of where He was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—He could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now He’s THERE, in the place of honor, right alongside God.…

Hebrews 12:1ff., MESSAGE

In 1998, German evangelist Ulrich Parzany received a medal for his outstanding youth work in Germany. In his response he said: “They crucified my boss, Jesus Christ. I am being honoured. What did I do wrong?”

Wolfgang Simson, Houses That Change the World

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