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“Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light. It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church.”

Men Heart Soul Light Spirit Church Religious Son Holy Pure Tradition Missions Useless Holy Spirit Etc Abandon Asia Tao Pure Heart Religious Traditions Dionysus Osiris Oceania

Author:Simone Weil

“Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.”

Age Values Turns Church Vision Embrace Greed Believer Kingdoms Abandon Materialism Biblical Consumerism Kingdom Of God Mandates

Author:Alan Hirsch

“If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.”

Ifs Knows Spirit Church Loss Risk Adventure Innovation Embrace Lays Insight Abandon Inherent Aversion Freshness Adventure And Risk

Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.”

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 8: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815

“Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.”

States Christian Church Position Truth Is Essentials Denial Abandon Denied Historic Degenerates Apostasy Christian Truth

Author:R. C. Sproul