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A batch of the best highlights from what Joshua's read, .
We live in a post-institutional age. Our danger is not to look to institutions to save us, but rather to look to ourselves to save us.
Disappearing Church
Mark Sayers
Epistle to Diognetus describes Christians as pilgrims and foreigners: “They live in their own countries, but only as nonresidents; they participate in everything as citizens, and endure everything as foreigners. Every foreign country is their fatherland, and every fatherland is foreign.”[34]
Desiring the Kingdom
James K. A. Smith
Truly such as these, if when called they refuse to undertake offices of supreme rule, for the most part deprive themselves of the very gifts which they received not for themselves alone, but for others also; and, while they meditate their own and not another’s gain, they forfeit the very benefits which they desire to keep to themselves.
The Book of Pastoral Rule
Saint Gregory the Great
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