Restoring Abilene

“If you believe in resurrection, you believe that the living God will put his world to rights and that if God wants to do that in the future, it is right to try to anticipate that by whatever means in the present.” N.T. Wright

“A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?” Dallas Willard

A church which pitches its tents without constantly looking for new horizons, which does not continually strike camp, is being untrue to its calling...We must play down our longing for certainty, accept what is risky, live by improvisation and experiment.Hans Kung