At its beginning Christianity was surprising, powerful, creative, world-shaking.
Focusing on the surprise of the gospel message takes us into the heart of what it is to understand Christianity at all, and thus what it is to remember and relearn the life-giving power and witness that went with be.
We need to ask the same fundamental questions as the early Christians, which will help us rediscover the surprising power of Christianity in our midst.
We need to recover the surprise of Christianity.
We have developed societal amnesia and ignorance of what Christianity originally was - and what it still can be.
Today in the West it is many times familiar, common, and expected, losing its power to surprise and transform.
At its beginning Christianity was surprising, powerful, creative, world-shaking.
This remembering and relearning can, in turn, surprise us all over again and chart a course for our witness today.
Focusing on the surprise of the gospel message takes us into the heart of what it is to understand Christianity at all, and thus what it is to remember and relearn the life-giving power and witness that went with being Christian at the beginning.
We need to ask the same fundamental questions as the early Christians, which will help us rediscover the surprising power of Christianity in our midst.
We need to recover the surprise of Christianity.
We have developed societal amnesia and ignorance of what Christianity originally was - and what it still can be.
Today in the West it is many times familiar, common, and expected, losing its power to surprise and transform.
At its beginning Christianity was surprising, powerful, creative, world-shaking.
This remembering and relearning can, in turn, surprise us all over again and chart a course for our witness today.
Focusing on the surprise of the gospel message takes us into the heart of what it is to understand Christianity at all, and thus what it is to remember and relearn the life-giving power and witness that went with being Christian at the beginning.
We need to ask the same fundamental questions as the early Christians, which will help us rediscover the surprising power of Christianity in our midst.
We need to recover the surprise of Christianity.
We have developed societal amnesia and ignorance of what Christianity originally was - and what it still can be.
Today in the West it is many times familiar, common, and expected, losing its power to surprise and transform.
At its beginning Christianity was surprising, powerful, creative, world-shaking
