Daily Archives: April 26, 2007

“When relationships are structured on mutual servanthood and not power, the world sees a glimpse of heavenly reality where the powers have been put away and God’s shalom over the entire created order.” (Younger p.149)

“He is Lord, not only of personal salvation, but also of all relationships and structures. His lordship of structures calls us to live and work with each other by the servant leadership which Jesus modeled. He was not the CEO of his disciples; he was their servant.” (Younger p.149)

“Our focus on doing church has certainly overshadowed the bibilical focus of being church, and this comes at a time when our culture is growing weary of slick production, while growing hungry for authentic prescence…they want engagement by the Church: engagement with historical and cultural solidity that facilitates meaningful interaction with transcendant reality.” (Younger p. 129)

“They are desperately reaching not just upwards but backwards. They yearn for a day gone by when things seemed more constant and less shallow. They want to tap into the treasures of the past as they search for staying power that seems unattainable in the present. They are weary of the pressure to become, while they long for the privilege to be. Therefore, they want different music (not just words but style) and different people with their sights set on a different world. They long for someone to speak to them with authority about someone other than themselves and about a time other than their own. They are not as interested in what they can become as in who they are and where they came from, historically speaking.” (Younger p. 128)

“I found the Enlightenment promise that all things, including satisfaction and contentment, could be found ‘this side of the ceiling’ was a lie.” (Tullian Tchividjian, Younger p. 127)

“Frei proposes a radical solution. Suppose we do not start with the modern world. Suppose we start with the bibical world, and let those narratives decide what’s real, so that our lives have meaning to the extent that we fit them into the framework. That is, after all, the way a great many Christians- Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin- read the Bible for a long time. If we do that, then the truth of the biblical narratives does not depend on connecting them to some other real world. They describe the real world.” (William C. Placher, Unapologetic Theology: A Christian Voice in a Pluralistic Conversation)