Category: Engaging the Culture

“Work has consequences. Laziness also has consequences, because God gave us the ultimate ‘gold standard’ called time, and everyone has exactly the same amount of it. It is a resource the government cannot print . . . Laziness is a destroyer. But how can it be, when it didn’t touch anything, when it didn’t consume anything? The problem is that it did consume something—it burned a lot of daylight”

Ploductivity, p. 14

“Truly exalted Christian architecture must be both exalted and humble.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 20

“Architecture speaks. It is not possible for human beings to live in architectural silence. Because we always want to keep the rain off, we are always speaking.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 19

“One of the first things we must recognize is that work does not exist in the world because of the Fall. Work got a lot more difficult because of our sin, and do labor under the ramifications of a curse. But God gave the cultural mandate to mankind, a mandate which involved an enormous amount of work, before the entrance of sin.”

Ploductivity, p. 13

“We assume the center when we are filled with the Spirit, and when He flows out of us. The Spirit is the center. This happens using physical things. Spiritual does not just mean like a spirit. Spiritual also means obedient. When we offer our bodies rightly, it is our spiritual worship (Rom. 12:1-2). The devil is a spirit who is unspiritual in this sense, and you have ten toes, which can be spiritual—if they are shod with the gospel of peace”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 17

“The church is not supposed to function as a rain barrel, or a collection tank. The church is a place from which the water is supposed to flow everywhere else.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 16