Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Pursuing Irrelevance

I'm going to like this book! Here is a taste from chapter 2:

"Ironically, the more we Christians pursue worldly relevance, the more we'll render ourselves irrelevant to the world around us. There's an irrelevance to pursuing relevance, just as there's a relevance to practicing irrelevance. To be truly relevant, you have to say things that are unfashionably eternal, not trendy. It's the timeless things that are most relevant to most people, and we dare not forget this fact in our pursuit of relevance."

"When the size of God grips us more than the size of our churches and leadership conferences, and when we become obsessed with surrendering our lives to God's sovereign presence, only then will we be redemptively different and serve as God's cosmic change agents in a world yearning for change."

-Tullian Tchividjian, Unfashionable.

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