Leonard Sweet Quotes
Eleven Quotes by: Leonard Sweet of SpiritVenture Ministries Founder and President. When I am engaging with people of other religious faiths, I find myself unable to commit to their conclusions or agree with their assessments. Yet at the same time I come away encouraged by spiritual truths found in their traditions, thrilled by new insights into my own faith, and more passionate than ever about being a disciple of Christ.
Book: by Leonard Sweet entitled: Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who?s Already There [Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 2010] p 28 Published: 2010.
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MRI [Missional, Relational, Incarnational] is the operating software on which human life and faith were designed to run: Version 1.0 is known as the First Testament; Version 2.0 is known as the New Testament; Version 3.0 is the Third Testament, the Gospel According to ... you.
Book: by Leonard Sweet entitled: So Beautiful p37. Published: 1st April 2009.
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As a cosmion incarnating the cells of a new body, New Lights will function as transitional vessels through which transforming energy can renew the divine image in the world, moving postmoderns from one state of embodiment to another.
Book: by Leonard Sweet entitled: Quantum Spirituality, pg. 38 Published: April 1991.
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Spirituality refers first of all to the universal gift of aliveness that exists within all religions and outside of religions. It breathes out the air that “inspires.” Those who have been in-spired with aliveness by the kiss of God will “con-spire” to kiss others into coming alive to the spiritual dimensions of existence. “In-spire” means to breathe in. “Con-spire” means to breathe together. “Conspiracy” enters by the same door as “spirituality.” A world gagging on smog and smut needs a breath of fresh air. The New Light movement begins as a fresh air conspiracy of “aliveness.” But it is more than that. Spiritual consciousness can be something greater than aesthetics or aliveness. The Bible tells us that the human species has been twice kissed by the divine.
Book: by Leonard Sweet entitled: Quantum Spirituality p 253 Published: April 1991.
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The time to save God's Dream is now. The people to save God's Dream are you.
Book: by Leonard Sweet entitled: Soul Tsunami, Sink or Swim in the New Millennium Culture, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, p. 34. Published: April 1991.
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Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the “new dark age” in which they are forced to live. “Back to the Bible,” Old Lights shout; “back to the Koran,” Old Lights thunder. But not everything Old Lights say is wrong. Much is right. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, the old adage reminds us.
Book: by Leonard Sweet entitled: Quantum Spirituality p 46 Published: April 1991.
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With the crooked lines of our lives God is wanting to write “a new account of everything old,” a Third Testament. This book has been breathed forth with the prayer that the crooked lines and cracks of New Light ministries, whatever they maybe, will become openings through which God’s light can shine.
Book: by Leonard Sweet entitled: Quantum Spirituality p 259 Published: April 1991.
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Energy-fire experiences take us into ourselves only that we might reach outside of ourselves. Metanoia is a de-centering experience of connected-ness and community. It is not an exercise in reciting what Jesus has done for me lately. Energy-fire ecstasy, more a buzz than a binge, takes us out of ourselves, literally. That is the meaning of the word 'ecstatic.'
Book: by Leonard Sweet entitled: Quantum Spirituality, P. 93 Published: April 1991.
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The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to the cosmos.
Book: by Leonard Sweet entitled: Quantum Spirituality, p. 137 Published: April 1991.
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One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna. A globalization of evangelism 'in connection' with others, and a globally 'in-formed' gospel, is capable of talking across the fence with Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Muslim--people from other so called 'new' religious traditions ('new' only to us)--without assumption of superiority and power
Book: by Leonard Sweet entitled: Quantum Spirituality, p. 129-130 Published: April 1991.
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In the old ecology of nature, change was seen as abnormal. In the new ecology of nature, change is life’s natural, normative state.... What works today won’t work tomorrow.... The wonder is that churches are not in more disarray. ... They are standing pat, opting to uphold the status quo rather than undergo the upheaval. … Postmodern culture is a change-or-be-changed world. The word is out: Reinvent yourself for the 21st century or die.
Book: by Leonard Sweet entitled: Soul Tsunami: Sink or Swim in the New Millennium Culture, Zondervan, p. 74 Published: April 1991.
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