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We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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I never seeĀ God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible the encounter. For this reason, Christianity has always insisted that trust and obedience come first, and knowledge follows.
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Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least deserving in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.
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On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.
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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
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C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
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Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
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... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.
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In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square
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Homeless people bear God's image too.
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A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
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The Quakers have a saying: An enemy is one whose story we have not heard. To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.
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The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.
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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
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All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
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The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.
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... we need to reclaim the goodnewness of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.
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There is but one true Giver in the universe all else are debtors.
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