My pastor quoted from Brennan Manning in her sermon last Sunday and what struck me was Manning's vision of how the Kingdom of God should be served and advanced.
"If we dared to live beyond our self-concern, if we refused to shrink from being vulnerable, if we took nothing but a compassionate attitude toward the world, if we were a counterculture to our nation's lunatic lust for pride of place, power and possessions, if we preferred to be faithful rather than successful, the walls of indifference to Jesus Christ would crumble.
A handful of us could be ignored by society, but hundreds, thousands, millions of servants would overwhelm the world. ... The call of Jesus Christ is revolutionary. If implemented, we would change the world in a few months."
Pastor went on to say that all believers are called to be priests, dedicating our entire lives to serving God. We are not to be concerned with our own lives alone, or our individual projects, but with the concerns of His Kingdom and His Church.
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