I know I haven't posted anything since Easter. I have traveled several places and have a lot on my plate...(including my family being in Georgia for a month without me!!!) But I could not help but post what I read on Alan Hirsch's blog today. If you don't know who he is, you can click on his name above and read his blog...he is an incredible thinker and leader in the church as it moves into the future. He wrote the following and I thought I would share it here with you...
The Church and the Kingdom
A brief little interlude with the chaos and church posts. In my writing I came across this quote today by theologian Richard Neuhaus (who died earlier this year). It is worth considering because of the implied association of the Church with the Kingdom of God.
Alfred Loisy the 19th century historian was right in saying that Jesus came proclaiming the Kingdom of God but what appeared was the Church. The disappointment was and continues to be severe. But the great irony is that today we alleviate our disappointment with the contemporary Church by pointing back to the New Testament Church --which was the great disappointment to begin with! Our restless discontent should not be over the distance between ourselves and the first century Church but over the distance between ourselves and the Kingdom of God to which the Church then and now is the witness. - -- R.J. Neuhaus, Freedom for Ministry, 33.
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Which of his books did you read this?
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