Sunday 10 July 2011

CHURCH & SOCIETY

'Because we live in a plural world that no longer gives us privileged place and power, we have the choice to confine our business to the private realm of self and its leisure choices or to find new patterns for faithful public deeds. The calling to seek first the reign of God and God's justice means reorientating our public deeds away from imposing our moral will onto the social fabric, and toward giving tangible experience of the reign of God that intrudes as an alternative to the public principles and loyalties.'
George Hunsberger in Tim Chester and Steve Timmis, Everyday Church, p.117.