Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way. Stanley Hauerwas More Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas More Quotes From Stanley Hauerwas To know God's name is to know God. Stanley Hauerwas name know god Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities. Stanley Hauerwas own know sin god Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence. Stanley Hauerwas community violence christian world To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished. Stanley Hauerwas free you rich poor The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to the poor is an exercise of great discipline, but such listening surely is what is required if charity is not to become a hatred of the poor for being poor. Stanley Hauerwas great discipline time world The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich. Stanley Hauerwas rich greed money want I cannot imagine a more realistic faith than the Christian faith. At every turn, we are told we are death-determined creatures and that our lives, our all too brief lives, at the very least will be complex if not difficult. Stanley Hauerwas will difficult christian faith Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine how much of what has passed for Christianity they still need to believe and yet still be able to think of themselves as Christians. Stanley Hauerwas try think time believe
