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Leonard I. Sweet is an American theologian, semiotician, church historian, pastor, and author. Sweet currently serves as the E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at Drew Theological School at Drew University, in Madison, New Jersey; and a Visiting Distinguished Professor at George Fox University in Portland, Oregon. Sweet is ordained in the United Methodist Church.

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It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For?, 1989 Jesus pioneered a relationship ethic based on compassion. Being a disciple means building relationships - with the Creator and with all creation and creatures.

Compassion, Ethic, Jesus, Mean, Veal

Too many Christians want to change the world not because they love the world but because they hate the world

Christian, Christians, Hate, World

The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone.

Alone, Essence, Influencing, Leadership, People, Relationship

God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission. . . Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business.

Church, Jesus, Missionary, Missions, Movement

Energy-fire experiences take us into ourselves only that we might reach outside of ourselves. Metanoia is a de-centering experience of connected-ness and community. It is not an exercise in reciting what Jesus has done for me lately. Energy-fire ecstasy, more a buzz than a binge, takes us out of ourselves, literally. That is the meaning of the word 'ecstatic. '

Done, Ecstatic, Exercise, Fire, Jesus, Reach

To imagine things other than they are is the essence of hope. It is also the stuff of revolution.

Essence, Revolution, Stuff, Things

Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.

Bible, Jesus, Knows, Ministry, Teamwork

The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness.

Authenticity, Church, Institutions, Witness

If your identity is found in Christ, then it matters less and less what people think of you.

Jesus, Matters, People, Think, Thinking

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

Create, Enter, Future, Positive Thinking, Wisdom

Followers of Jesus don’t so much see different things from anyone else as they see the same things differently.

Different, Differently, Followers, Jesus, Same, See

The time to save God's Dream is now. The people to save God's Dream are you.

Dream, People, Save, Time

When I am engaging with people of other religious faiths, I find myself unable to commit to their conclusions or agree with their assessments. Yet at the same time I come away encouraged by spiritual truths found in their traditions, thrilled by new insights into my own faith, and more passionate than ever about being a disciple of Christ.

Assessment, Conclusions, Religious, Same, Spiritual, Traditions

What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.

History, Inspirational, Legacy, Life, New Beginnings, Set

Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the "new dark age" in which they are forced to live. "Back to the Bible," Old Lights shout; "back to the Koran," Old Lights thunder. But not everything Old Lights say is wrong. Much is right. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, the old adage reminds us.

Age, Dark, Light, Live, Resurgent, Thunder

The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

Chains, Conformity, Unison

When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language

American, Asked, He Man, Language, Men, Responded

What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

Body, Clinical, Dead, Differences, Scary, Simple

Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I don’t do books’? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I don’t do Facebook’?

Book, Five, Ministry, Sorry, Years

The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don’t know.

Bigger, Islands, Shoreline, Short, Unknown

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