“To make disciples is to call and equip men and women to be signs and agents of God’s justice in all human affairs. An evangelism that invites men and women to accept the name of Christ but fails to call them to this real encounter must be rejected as false.”
—Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p133
April 2010
6 posts
“A private truth for a limited circle of believers is no truth at all.”
—Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p117
“True freedom is a gift of grace given by the one who is in fact Lord; that gift, freely given, can only be received in freedom. It follows that the church cannot bear witness to that gift unless there is freedom to refuse it. Yet the church must still bear witness that this is the only true freedom: to belong wholly to the one by whom the space for freedom is created, and whose service is perfect freedom.”
—Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p141
“Rulers, like all human beings, can act with vigor and patience only in the power of some sustaining vision of how things really are - the order, the dharma, the Tao that governs all things.”
—Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p129
“The radical conversion of the heart, the U-turn of the mind which the New Testament calls metanoia, can never be the calculable result of correct methods of communication. It is something mysterious for which we can only say that our methods of communication were, at most, among the occasions of the miracle.”
—Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p6
“From whence comes the voice that can challenge this [our] culture on its own terms, a voice that speaks its own language and yet confronts it with the authentic figure of the crucified and living Christ so that it is stopped in its tracks and turned back from the way of death?”
—Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p9
