“Whatever its positive contributions on values and institutions, Christendom seriously distorted the gospel, marginalised Jesus, and has left the churches ill-equipped for mission in a post-Christendom culture.”
Anabaptist Network
Anabaptist Network Core Convictions
John Howard Yoder on Christology and Ecclesial Practice
“We do not here advocate an unheard-of modern understanding of Jesus; we ask rather that the implications of what the church has always said about Jesus as Word of the Father, as true God and true Man, be taken more seriously, as relevant to our social problems, than ever before.”
John Howard Yoder
Bart Campolo on Sagging Pants
“I know it isn’t politically correct to say so, but when I become the world’s benign dictator, sagged pants are the first thing to go.”
Bart Campolo
Leo Tolstoy on Friedrich Nietzsche
“Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.”
Leo Tolstoy
N.T. Wright on the Authority of the Bible
“For the most part the Bible itself is much more concerned with doing a whole range of other things rather than talking about itself.”
N.T. Wright
Matthew 11:28 and the Redemption of Brian Welch
“Jesus, if you are real, take this stuff away from me. Make me a good person again. Take away my suicidal thoughts. Help me want to live again.”
Brian “Head” Welch
Leonardo DaVinci Quote
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” - Pablo Picasso
The Gospel of John 1:12
“But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.” - John 1.12
Rob Bell Quote
“The Bible is a collection of stories that teach us about what it looks like when God is at work through actual people.” - Rob Bell
- Thoreau
“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
- Thoreau