Quotes from Leonard Sweet

Worship is what you do when you've heard Jesus speak. A worship life is what you live when you walk with Jesus.

Followership starts with Jesus, stays with Jesus, goes with Jesus, and ends with Jesus.

Adam means "human." Eve means "life." A human needs another for "life" to come alive and become living. Identity can't grow ferally, only communally. We were meant to eat together, not solo. Eve's solitary eating is what got her in trouble.

Haddon Robinson once said, "I have come closer to being bored out of the Christian faith than being reasoned out of it. I think we underestimate the deadly gas of boredom. It is not only the death of communication, but the death of life and hope.

If sign and image are central to the New Testament, then it has to be read as a kind of narrative poetry. In the Scripture, we encounter types and symbols and emblems of transfiguration, and that is how the early Church, which created the New Testament, understood its own creation.

Followership is not an easy path, and Jesus never pretended otherwise.

Jesus was best known as a master of metaphor, a legendary storyteller, and a powerful healer who communicated in signs, images, and gestures. Therefore, to understand Jesus and the Scriptures, we need to train ourselves and others not to exegete more words but to exegete images.

The currency of the gospel of religion is fear and imposition. The currency of the gospel of Christ is love and invitation.

flowers, or our feet from dancing. If you don't meet God along the way, you'll never meet God at the destination. That's the dynamic tension.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe that "Unless I believe, I shall not understand." —ANSELM OF CANTERBURY1

Christ does not say to me, "Be yourself." He says, "Be with me." BROTHER ROGER OF TAIZÉ

there are more biographies of Jesus than of any other human—one hundred thousand biographies in English alone.4