The Time Has Come For A New

There Is An Innocence Or Purity That We See In Renewals And In The Mennonite Church And A New An Invigorated Civil Rights Movement.

It Is The Church's Job, As Dr. [martin Luther] King Says, To Be The Conscience Of The State, Not The Chaplain Of The State.

Look Through The Prayer Books. You'll See Lots Of Dates. You'll See Names Of Native Americans Remembered. This Was An Open-sourcing Project Among So Many People.

There Are Congregations On Nearly Every Corner. I'm Not Sure We Need More Churches. What We Need Is A Church. I Say One Church Is Better Than Fifty. I Have Tried To Remove The Plural Form Churches From My Vocabulary, Training Myself To Think Of The Church As Christ Did, And As The Early Christians Did. The Metaphors For Her Are Always Singular - A Body, A Bride. I Heard One Gospel Preacher Say It Like This, As He Really Wound Up And Broke A Sweat: "we've Got To Unite Ourselves As One Body. Because Jesus Is Coming Back, And He's Coming Back For A Bride Not A Harem.

But What Had Lasting Significance Were Not The Miracles Themselves But Jesus' Love. Jesus Raised His Friend Lazarus From The Dead, And A Few Years Later, Lazarus Died Again. Jesus Healed The Sick, But Eventually Caught Some Other Disease. He Fed The Ten Thousands, And The Next Day They Were Hungry Again. But We Remember His Love. It Wasn't That Jesus Healed A Leper But That He Touched A Leper, Because No One Touched Lepers.