{"id":2637,"date":"2007-07-12T08:56:49","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T14:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2007-07-12T08:56:49","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T14:56:49","slug":"quotes-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/quotes-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mark Batterson<\/strong> talked about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evotional.com\/2007\/06\/spy-rules.html\">Moscow Rules<\/a> at the 2007 Buzz Conference hosted by his church in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some great quotes from the message:<\/p>\n<p>What Batterson says is the core value of his church:<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong>Irrelevance is Irreverence.<\/strong> God is not just omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s omni-relevant. He knows 6 billion dialects. He speaks our language. Where we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re failing is in incarnation. We need to incarnate the truth in ways that make sense to our culture.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we quote the Bible we gain credibility with Christians. When we quote non-biblical sources we gain credibility with non-Christians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All truth is God&#8217;s truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every &#8216;ology&#8217; is a branch of theology. Because God made it all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can preach for two reasons because you have to or because you <em>have<\/em> to. You can preach because you have to because you&#8217;re on the schedule this week and you&#8217;re up to bat. You&#8217;re in the batters box. Or you can preach because you <em>have<\/em> to because there is a message that&#8217;s burning into you and you are like Paul compelled to preach. His fire showed up in your bones and you need to say something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>I want to study less and live more<\/strong> so my sermons are less theoretical and more experientially. <strong>I don&#8217;t think what NCC needs is a sermon well preached. They need a life well lived.<\/strong> I need to make sure I&#8217;m not just talking about things I&#8217;m living things. It&#8217;s our example that we set. I think the best thing I can do is try to be a great dad. Try to be a good husband. Try to live my life in a way that honors God and then more people will get it because we all know that <strong>Christianity is more caught than taught.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Listen online: http:\/\/buzzconference.com\/media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Batterson talked about the Moscow Rules at the 2007 Buzz Conference hosted by his church in Washington, D.C. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some great quotes from the message: What Batterson says is the core value of his church: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Irrelevance is Irreverence. God is not just omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s omni-relevant. He knows 6 billion dialects. 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