christian living on One-Size-Fits-All

Imagine a doctor’s office where every patient is told, “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.” If I have a headache, that is great advice, but if my appendix has just burst, I will be dead befo...

We must serve God, everyone in his own way, wearing either a leather apron or an academic gown—it does not make any difference. Everyone has to serve God, wearing rubber boots or carrying a gasoline c...

Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

God does not choose those who are fit. He outfits those whom He chooses.

Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.

A therapist once told me that the most common complaint he heard from his patients was the feeling that they didn’t belong. The feeling of being an imposter, or of being outside things, of not fitting...

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

When we live our lives by the story of unlimitedness, we believe small equals powerless.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

We can't save ourselves by pulling on our bootstraps, even when the bootstraps are made of the finest religious leather.

If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings qui...

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

In Essentials Unity; In Non-Essentials Liberty; In All Things Charity

Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion. Of course Christianity is deeply p...

You are good and all-powerful, caring for each one of us as though the only one in your care, and yet for all as for each individual.

Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of...

’Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often still intact: the standards of behavior are still those of k...

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Give me all of you!!! I don’t want so much of your time, so much of your talents and money, and so much of your work. I want YOU!!! ALL OF YOU!! I have not come to torment or frustrate the natural man...

I don’t think that anybody can grow unless he really is accepted exactly as he is.

Walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to ...

God created the world to be a fabric, for everything to be woven together and interdependent. “

Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.

All peoples are equally created and tasked to shape their communities toward shalom.