Serving people is the only way people’s perceptions of the church are ever going to change. This is why it is so toxic for the Gospel when Christians picket and boycott and complain about how bad the world is…why blame dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.
Rob Bell (via haereticum)
Rob Bell (via haereticum)
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Jesus Christ is cited as the first of anarchists; for did he not say, “Resist not evil: if one take away thy coat, give him thy cloak also; and if one smite thee upon the one cheek, turn to him the other also?” What is this, we are asked, but a denial of the right to use force even in defense of one’s simplest and plainest rights?
Lyman Abbott (via lukexvx)
Lyman Abbott (via lukexvx)
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Christian anarchists piss Christians off more than atheists. Or Jews.
It’s ridiculous.
Tell them that you don’t believe in God.
Tell them you don’t believe in Jesus.
But how dare you tell them they shouldn’t sing God Bless America in church.
How dare you.
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Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
like a bird from the snare of the fowler. Proverbs 6:5 (via icansmellthegasoline)
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
Proverbs 6:5 (via icansmellthegasoline)
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The state is not something which can be destroyed by a revolution, but is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of human behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently.
Gustav Landauer (via onegodonemaster)
Gustav Landauer (via onegodonemaster)
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