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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
In short, the kingdom is concerned with the stuff of sociology—with redeeming communities, institutions, and systems of human organization.
Desiring the Kingdom
James K. A. Smith
This fact of God’s care and provision proves to all that no human condition excludes blessedness, that God may come to any person with his care and deliverance. God does sometimes help those who cannot, or perhaps just do not, help themselves. (So much for another well-known generalization!) The religious system of his day left the multitudes out, but Jesus welcomed them all into his kingdom. Anyone could come as well as any other. They still can. That is the gospel of the Beatitudes.
The Divine Conspiracy
Dallas Willard
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