On finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it. Matthew 13:46 NRSV …
Lamentations 5:4
We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought. Lamentations 5:4 NRSV …
Isaiah 43:24
You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities. Isaiah 43:24 NRSV …
2 Samuel 24:24
But the king said to Araunah, "No, but I will buy them from you for a price; I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. 2 Samuel 24:24 NRSV …
Ezekiel 27:9
The elders of Gebal and its artisans were within you, caulking your seams; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were within you, to barter for your wares. Ezekiel 27:9 NRSV …
Doug Sherman
"I suggest that we have come to the day of the layperson, the day when the key operative in the Church is not a pope or a saint or a monk or an evangelist or a missionary or even a “highly committed” churchman — but the everyday worker who simply puts Christ first in his or her career, as in the …
Missional Church
"The answer to the crisis of the North American church will not be found at the level of method and problem solving. We share the conviction of a growing consensus of Christians in North America that the problem is much more deeply rooted. It has to do with who we are and what we are for. The real …
Jürgen Habermas
"Power is actualized only where word and deed have not parted company, where words are not empty and deeds not brutal, where words are not used to violate and destroy but to establish relations and create new realities." -Professor Jürgen Habermas, Chair of Philosophy and Sociology at Goethe …
Robert K. Greenleaf
"It has generally been my experience that the very top peopleof truly great organizations are servant-leaders. They are the most humble, the most reverent, the most open, the most teachable, the most respectful, the most caring, and the most determined. When people with the formal authority or …
Doug Sherman and William Hendricks
"I think we might find more non-Christians turning to Christ if we as Christians concentrated considerably more on a God-honoring lifestyle than simply on evangelistic strategies. Obviously we need both. But I think we are shooting ourselves in the foot if we try to witness apart from Christlike …