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The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are not Bible stories that we learn these are our stories.

Leonard Sweet

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Leonard Sweet
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 1
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Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and the gospel of peace.
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When I am engaging with people of other religious faiths, I find myself unable to commit to their conclusions or agree with their assessments. Yet at the same time I come away encouraged by spiritual truths found in their traditions, thrilled by new insights into my own faith, and more passionate than ever about being a disciple of Christ.
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As a cosmion incarnating the cells of a new body, New Lights will function as transitional vessels through which transforming energy can renew the divine image in the world, moving postmoderns from one state of embodiment to another.
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God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business.
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The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don’t know.
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What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.
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Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.
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When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business? the man responded: My customer's language
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What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.
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The time to save God's Dream is now. The people to save God's Dream are you.
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I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here.
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The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to the cosmos.
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To imagine things other than they are is the essence of hope. It is also the stuff of revolution.
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Too many Christians want to change the world not because they love the world but because they hate the world
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When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes - 'time to save the world!'
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The hole in the moral ozone is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.
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If your identity is found in Christ, then it matters less and less what people think of you.
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Followers of Jesus don’t so much see different things from anyone else as they see the same things differently.
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People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.
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When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.
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