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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Cultivation

The church, according to Stanley Hauerwas, is to cultivate a people who ...
can risk being peaceful in a violent world, risk being kind in a competitive society, risk being faithful in an age of cynicism, risk being gentle among those who admire the tough, risk love when it may not be returned, because we have the confidence that in Christ we have been reborn into a new reality.
Against the Nations: War and Survival in a Liberal Society. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992, 118, qtd. in Darrell L. Guder, ed. Missional Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998.

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