The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met … - Roland Allen

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You have to take away the idea that something you do is right or wrong. I don't think there's a right or a wrong; I think there's an "it works" or "it doesn't work" for the whole. And that's why you need a director you trust, so you can just keep throwing out suggestions.

Roland Allen

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

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Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

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Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

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We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst the native Christians slowly recreate their own customs as the Spirit of Christ gradually teaches them.

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The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its elements is a very simple thing. . . What is necessary is faith. What is needed is the kind of faith which uniting a man to Christ, sets him on fire.

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The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work.

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