“It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.” BelieveDoeImportantChristianAsks Book:Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship Source: Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship
“...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. "Spend now and someone else will pay later."” BelieveRealOrderBeliefNaturalPayEnvironmentGenerationsFutureInvestmentDebtEnormousSettlingOur SocietyWorthwhileConsumptionFuture GenerationNatural Environment Author:Lesslie Newbigin
“A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the present and piles up debts for the future, ravages the environment, and leaves its grandchildren to cope with the results as best they can.” BelieveResultsEnvironmentFutureWesternDebtContemporaryWorthwhileGrandchildrenWestern Society Book:The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic Source: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic
“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the other hand, believing everything uncritically is the road to disaster. The faculty of doubt is essential. But as I have argued, rational doubt always rests on faith and not vice versa. The relationship between the two cannot be reversed.” IfsBelieveDoeTwoHandsDoubtEssentialsVicesDisasterRationalFacultyVice Versa Author:Lesslie Newbigin
“How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified Savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those whose entire mental training has conditioned them to believe that the real world is the world which can be satisfactorily explained and managed without the hypothesis of God? I know of only one clue to the answering of that question, only one real hermeneutic of the gospel: a congregation which believes it.” KnowsWorldBelieveMadeRealStoriesCreationStrangeTrainingFleshReal WorldSaviorResurrectionClueHypothesisCredibleCongregationHermeneuticsStrange Stories Author:Lesslie Newbigin
