Food for the journey

'My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work'. said Jesus.'

'If you want more of God, you'll find him in the act of service. Discovering more of God is not so much about asking him to bless our desires, but aligning our longings with his desires. It's really about finding out what he's doing and then having the courage to join in. Only this kind of faith is ever truly satisfying and sustaining.' (Steve Chalke/ Jackie Pullinger)

The Living Church 1

'I have often said that we need more "R.C." churches, standing not for Roman Catholic but for Radical Conservative churches - "conservative" in the sense that they conserve what Scripture plainly requires, but "radical" in relation to that combination of tradition and convention which we call "culture". Scripture is unchangeable; culture is not.'
John Stott in the preface to his book The Living Church.

The books purpose is 'to bring together a number of characteristics of what I will call an authentic or living church, whether it calls itself 'emerging' or not. I hope to show that these characteristics, being clearly biblical, must in some way be preserved.'