So why isn't
the church in the darkest places?
Not exact matches
Here are ten things you might hear
in a Sunday service which will clue you
in that your
church leadership fails to grasp our mission to enter the
dark and dangerous
places of this world with the Gospel of the Kingdom or the fact the
church is something we are, not something we attend.
I had been out of
church for about a year and was really
in a
dark place.
That said, I really do know there are
churches and followers of Jesus who do care about those
in the
dark places.
If the
church wants to join God
in storming the gates of hell,
in defeating the darkness... We must find the mean
places, the
dark places, the dangerous
places, and take the
church there.
If the
church wants to follow Jesus into the world, we must begin by looking
in our town,
in our community, and
in our neighborhood for the
places that are
dark and sin - filled.
«I saw the crosses so often — and often
in unexpected
places — like a thin
dark veil of the Catholic
church spread over the New Mexico landscape,» said Georgia O'Keeffe of the Southwestern territory near Taos, where she would eventually settle.
These tales of unrequited love take
place in zoos and
churches,
in museums and galleries, and
in the deepest
darkest crevices of each writer's imagination.