It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.
Lesslie NewbiginThe victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the levers of power: it was won when the victims knelt down in the Colosseum and prayed in the name of Jesus for the Emperor.
Lesslie NewbiginThe Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ's witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a mission to the ends of the earth.
Lesslie NewbiginDo things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel.
Lesslie NewbiginThe necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the belief that the universe is both rational and contingent. Such a belief is the presupposition of modern science and cannot by any conceivable argument be a product of science. One has to ask: Upon what is this belief founded?
Lesslie Newbigin