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Book: Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage
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  1. Philip Yancey _ Church: Why Bother?: My

    Many churches offer more entertainment than worship, more uniformity than diversity, more exclusivity than outreach, more law than grace.
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  2. Philip Yancey _ Church: Why Bother?: My

    Family is the one human institution we have no choice over. We get in simply by being born, and as a result we are involuntarily thrown together with a menagerie of strange and unlike people. Church calls for another step: to voluntarily choose to band together with a strange menagerie because of a common bond in Jesus Christ. I have found that such a community more resembles a family than any other human institution. Henri Nouwen once defined a community as "a place where the person you least want to live with always lives." His definition applies equally to the group that gathers each Thanksgiving and the group that congregates each Sunday morning. {p. 64-65, Church: Why Bother?}
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  3. Philip Yancey _ Church: Why Bother?: My

    Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization ─ Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism ─ Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet."
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  4. Philip Yancey _ Church: Why Bother?: My

    As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God's name. {p. 68, Church: Why Bother?}
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