Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Think Big

All the various movements of the past decades will one day converge in a radical awakening of the masses that leads the way to social justice and to God’s unity - that is to say, to the church, to the kingdom of God, and to community in action. We must set ourselves in the midst of this mighty task and sacrifice ourselves. We must be ready to be consumed in a mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit, to be merged with it completely.
We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centres, the tens of thousands in medium-sized towns, the thousands in small towns, and the hundreds in villages - all these at once. Like a volcanic eruption, a spiritual revolution needs to spread through the country, to spur people to crucial decisions. People have to recognize the futility of splitting life up into politics, economics, the humanities, and religion. We must be awakened to a life in which all of these things are completely integrated.
- Eberhard Arnold

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