Just finished reading The Monkey and the Fish: Liquid Leadership for a Third-Culture Church by Dave Gibbons. This book really challenged me and it also reinforced some things that I already have been exposed to. Here are some excerpts:
"I believe that today God is calling us in the church to become a different kind of movement, known for our kisses of compassion rather than our condemnations."
"I think we {the church} are preoccupied with big."
"We cannot be fully human alone."
"...questions should lead us. Questions, not answers."
"'You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into the bottle, it become the bottle. You put it into a teapot and it becomes the teapot. The water can flow. The water can crash. Be water my friend' [Bruce Lee]"
"While an answer may fork in a specific situation, questions can guide us to the answers is all kinds of situations."
"Where is the other side of the tracks in your cit or region? In other words, who are the marginalized or the outsiders near you, people whom you feel pain for?"
"What will draw most of the world to Christ is not simply a prosperity gospel but a gospel that takes a real look at the beauty and the bane of suffering."
"Any worthy endeavor is constrained by our worst fears."
"Our {the church's} party should be the best.
"...create unity among diversity."
"We need to learn to walk in the blur and in the intersections of cultures, to bust the walls that separate us from a world of colliding cultures and generations, and the shifting of roles, responsibilities, and influence."
"All of the prejudices we've set up among cultures, among peoples of color, among backgrounds is so alien to the mind of Christ that it is the deepest kind of evil that I know. {Brennan Manning}"
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