Quotes by Lesslie Newbigin

Lesslie Newbigin

…our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. “Spend now and someone else will pay later.”

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A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the present and piles up debts for the future, ravages the environment, and leaves its grandchildren to cope with the results as best they can.

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Future

Grandchildren

Christ is the clue to all that is.

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Congregational life wherein each member has his opportunity to contribute to the life of the whole body, those gifts with which the Spirit endows him, is as much of the essence of the Church as are ministry and sacraments.

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Essence

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Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel.

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Prayer

God’s grace is not limited by any ecclesiastical barriers.

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God's Grace

Grace

How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified Savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those whose entire mental training has conditioned them to believe that the real world is the world which can be satisfactorily explained and managed without the hypothesis of God? I know of only one clue to the answering of that question, only one real hermeneutic of the gospel: a congregation which believes it.

Believe

Real

Training

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

Jesus

Life

Optimistic

If the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human begin will be one which rests on the fidelity of God, not upon the competence of the human knower. It will be a kind of certainty which is inseparable from gratitude and trust

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Gratitude

Stories

It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis.

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Quotes by Lesslie Newbigin

Lesslie Newbigin

A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the present and piles up debts for the future, ravages the environment, and leaves its grandchildren to cope with the results as best they can.

Christ is the clue to all that is.

Congregational life wherein each member has his opportunity to contribute to the life of the whole body, those gifts with which the Spirit endows him, is as much of the essence of the Church as are ministry and sacraments.

Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel.

God’s grace is not limited by any ecclesiastical barriers.

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

If the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human begin will be one which rests on the fidelity of God, not upon the competence of the human knower. It will be a kind of certainty which is inseparable from gratitude and trust

It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis.

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