Quotes about Engagement

For many Charismatics, Scripture is not simply a book to be read and studied, but it is an invitation into a lifestyle of supernatural engagement. Truly, such followers of Jesus desire to be doers of the Word, not hearers only. This should be celebrated rather than rejected.

We're all gonna become overweight sponges if we just soak up spiritual data and never get out into the world to be squeezed.

When the kids were growing up, we didn't have a television in the house connected to a cable or an antenna. If something bad happened in the world, I wanted the kids to hear about it from me.

Every day carries with it a responsibility.

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.

Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.

the Church should be the place where a word reverberates right into the world.

The author says that theologian operates with windows open to the interest of the world, but also with a skylight that allows full awareness of prayer.

The area of the Church stands in the world, as outwardly the Church stands in the village or in a city, beside the school, the cinema and the railway station. The Church's language cannot aim at being an end in itself. It must be made clear that the Church exists for the sake of the world, that the light is shining in the darkness.

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.