“So herein lies the choice for those of us who are Christians. We can either stay within the Christianity we have mastered with the Jesus we have domesticated, or we can leave Christianity as a destination, embrace Christianity as a way of life, and then journey to reality, where God is present and living in every person, every human community, and all creation.” WayHumansPersonsRealityChristianLyingChoicesJesusCommunityChristianityJourneyCreationEmbraceDestination Book:It's Really All About God: How Islam, Atheism, and Judaism Made Me a Better Christian Source: It's Really All About God: How Islam, Atheism, and Judaism Made Me a Better Christian
“The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not Christianity but rather the kingdom of God. ... to believe that God is limited to it would be an attempt to manage God. If one holds that Christ is confined to Christianity, one has chosen a god that is not sovereign. Soren Kierkegaard argued that the moment one decides to become a Christian, one is liable to idolatry.” IfsBelieveMomentsWould BeChristianSpiritualJesusChristChurchChristianityMovementJesus ChristUltimateKingdomsChosenManageAspirationFollowersSovereignKingdom Of GodConfinedEmergingIdolatryLiable Author:Samir Selmanovic