“For too long we have gone out into the world to tell people what we think they ought to know rather than seeking to discover what they are interested in and where they are looking for answers. This is reminiscent of Paul’s encounter in Athens, a city devoted to questions of ultimate meaning, a place so intent on religious propriety that it erected an altar to an unknown god, just in case. Paul began with what they had and built from there.
His declaration that “God is not far from any one of us†is a profound missional lesson for us all; we don’t have to take God anywhere, we just have to discover where he is already at work.”
– Barry Taylor
from an Emergent Manifesto of Hope.
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