Leonard Sweet Quotes about Jesus

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

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

Jesus, Thinking, People

Leonard Sweet (2014). “The Well-Played Life: Why Pleasing God Doesn't Have to Be Such Hard Work”, p.116, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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.

Leonard Sweet

Jesus, Church, Missionary

Leonard Sweet (2009). “So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church”, p.55, David C Cook

I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here.

Leonard Sweet

Jesus, Writing, Heart

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

Leonard Sweet

Teamwork, Jesus, Ministry

One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna. A globalization of evangelism 'in connection' with others, and a globally 'in-formed' gospel, is capable of talking across the fence with Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Muslim - people from other so called 'new' religious traditions ('new' only to us) - without assumption of superiority and power

Leonard Sweet

Religious, Sweet, Jesus

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

Leonard Sweet

Jesus, Different, Followers

The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are not Bible stories that we learn; these are our stories.

Leonard Sweet

Jesus, Teaching, Stories

Leonard Sweet (2001). “SoulTsunami: Sink Or Swim in New Millennium Culture”, p.426, Zondervan

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.'

Leonard Sweet

Jesus, Exercise, Fire

When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes - 'time to save the world!'

Leonard Sweet

Jesus, Retirement, Thinking

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.

Leonard Sweet

Jesus, Mean, Animal