Sentences with phrase «giant rummage sale»

``... The only way to understand what is currently happening to us as twenty - first - century Christians in North America is first to understand that about every five hundred years the Church feels compelled to hold a giant rummage sale... About every five hundred years the empowered structures of institutionalized Christianity, whatever they may be at the time, become an intolerable carapace that must be shattered in order that renewal and new growth may occur.»