LIFE IN NASHVILLE // In the Wake of a Move...

After a 30-hour drive from California, I settled back into my house in Nashville and hosted my sister and nephews for a week. Then the traveling kicked in. And over the course of the next few weeks, I hope to catch up here and talk about what's happening in life.

If Jesus really is alive...

A thought from Theologizing in Mission class yesterday:

In interfaith dialogue there is always an elephant in the room: Jesus. But if Jesus really is alive, then the elephant really is in the room. Dialogue become trialogue.

Trying to figure out why I haven't posted here

As I try to figure out why I haven't posted much, chew on these....

“The truth is that the gospel escapes domestication, retains its proper strangeness, its power to question us, only when we are faithful to its universal, supranatural, supracultural nature—faithful not just to in words but in action, not just in theological statement but in missionary practices in taking the gospel across the cultural frontiers.”
- Leslie Newbigin, IBMR April 1988

“This stuff of mission isn’t our work; it’s God’s.”
- Doug McConnell

“In this sense the foreign missionary is an enduring necessity in the life of the universal church, but, of course, the missionary journeys have to be multidirectional and not—as in the former period—only from west to east and from north to south.”
- Leslie Newbigin, IBMR April 1988

"A calling that is not geographic."
- Doug McConnell

"God didn’t bring you here to take you out a cynic."
- Doug McConnell