I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. - Luke 13:3
John Burke is the pastor of Gateway Church in Austin, Texas. If you are a subscriber to these posts you have noticed that I have been quoting him a bit lately. Pastor John wrote a book entitled No Perfect People Allowed and the quotes I have been using come from it.
Gateway, under Burke's leadership, seems to have grasped how to embrace those mired in the lost soup of today's culture (at least in Austin) and for God's people who are seeking an effective biblical approach, his book is challenging.
How does the 21st century church marry ministry and theology in order to equally communicate both the love and justice
of God to a culture that has completely abandoned truth? What must our message be?
As simple as it may seem, the answer is in Christ Himself, not our comfort. Jesus did what had to be done in order for mankind to know His grace. His churches must do the same.
What our world needs more than anything else is grace. Not more talk about grace, but grace that seeks out the lost people like Jesus does. Grace with skin on it, because people are born to run from God without it. - John Burke
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