Samir Selmanovic Quotes
Six Quotes by: Samir Selmanovic of Faith House Manhattan Senior Pastor. This is the night when the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest. Spirit walks our world and we walk the Otherworld.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: 13th October 2010.
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Evangelicals have to face it (like Roman Catholics of 16th century had to): Increasingly, our version of Good News is neither news nor good.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: 7th April 2010.
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Is our religion {Christianity} the only one that understands the true meaning of life? Or does God place his truth in others too? Well, God decides, and not us. The gospel is not our gospel, but the gospel of the kingdom of God, and what belongs to the kingdom of God cannot be hijacked by Christianity.
Book: by Doug Pagitt/Tony Jones entitled: , An Emergent Manifesto of Hope, p. 194. Published: 5th November 2009.
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Certainty is out of vogue. Dogma is the devil. We are learning to communicate any convictions we have more tentatively; any statements we make, we feel obliged to qualify.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: 24th November 2008.
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The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not Christianity but rather the kingdom of God. ... to believe that God is limited to it would be an attempt to manage God. If one holds that Christ is confined to Christianity, one has chosen a god that is not sovereign. Soren Kierkegaard argued that the moment one decides to become a Christian, one is liable to idolatry.
Book: by Doug Pagitt/T Jones entitled: An Emergent Manifesto of Hope, pp. 192-193. Published: 1st July 2008.
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When I pray the Lord’s Prayer, I begin with the first word, “Our . . .” (see Matthew 6:9) and I stop and ask myself, “Who do I include in this Our?” I remind myself that the story of God is bigger than my personal story, bigger than the story of my religion, bigger than the story of all humanity, and bigger than the story of all creation. In the kingdom of God, these four stories are all really my stories—all at the same time—woven together, giving meaning and life to each other.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: september 2007.
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