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Dan Kimball Quotes:

Dan Kimball quotes

Ocupation: Author

Life: b. November 21, 1960

Birthday: November 21

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Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring at them.

Topics: Vintage, Feelings, Important

quote the fruit of the spirit wasn t intended to be a list of goals for us to produce it is dan kimball Quotes

Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus.

Topics: Jesus, Community, Influence

Meditative prayer like that we experienced in the labyrinth resonates with hearts of emerging generations.

Topics: Prayer, Heart, Labyrinth, Church Leaders, Emerging

The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching.

Topics: Teaching, Taught, Paradigm

For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.

Topics: Motivation, Church, Venture, Planters

The fruit of the Spirit wasn't intended to be a list of goals for us to produce - it is the Holy Spirit through us who produces fruit.

Topics: Goal, Fruits Of The Spirit, Lists

So, the emerging church is about a re-imagining: re-imagining our preaching, our evangelism, and our worship services. A re-imagining of new types of churches and an opportunity to be rethinking all we do because we recognize that the next generation is at stake if we don't.

Topics: Opportunity, Church, Next, Worship Service, Rethinking

Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.

Topics: Buddhist, Responsibility, Space, Orthodox Church

How ironic that returning to a raw and ancient form of worship is now seen as new and even cutting edge. We are simply going back to a vintage form of worship which has been around for as long as the church has been in existence.

source: - Dan Kimball (2009). “The Emerging Church”, p.169, Harper Collins

Topics: Cutting, Vintage, Long, Cutting Edge

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