Saturday, September 22, 2007

What Church-men ought to be about.


I've been going through tons and tons of my things, getting rid of what I don't need and packing away the things I want to save.
Today amongst the many papers I have stored away in my memory boxes, I found this piece of paper that I had taped up to my wall in college. I love this quote and I wanted to share it with all of you.
Always remember what we, as believers of Christ, ought to be about....

"I simply argue that the cross should be raised at the center of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of the church. I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves; on the town's garbage heap; at a crossroad, so cosmopolitan they had to write of a place where cynics talk smut, and thieves curse, and soldiers gamble. Because that is where He died. And that is what He died for. And that is what He died about. That is where church-men ought to be and what church-men ought to be about."
-George MacLeod

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