Quotes About Relevance

Cuando el enfoque principal de la iglesia se convierte en hacerla atractiva para el inconverso, no toma mucho tiempo para que pierda su poder.

Lo más importante es que hay un gran propósito detrás de la Creación y la Caída. Aprendemos que nada sucede por error; que no hay personajes irrelevantes; que hay un propósito para todo y para todos.

El evangelio antiguo y sencillo todavía es relevante para aquellos que están pereciendo y se conecta con aquellos que son vivificados por el Espíritu y ponen su confianza en Cristo Jesús.

No one who is unmemorable is going to be chosen for an important job, because one cannot select what one cannot remember.

prioritizing the wrong outcomes: making participants feel good and giving them a good time. Simply stated, measuring entertainment value produces great entertainment, not change; measuring the wrong things crowds out assessing other, more relevant indicators

Content precedes design. Design in advance of content is not design, it's decoration.

I suspect God is more glorified in a humble room of earnest worshipers than a massive production designed to sound "relevant" to the listeners but no longer relevant to God. When the worship of God turns into a "worship experience," we have derailed as the body of Christ.

The next generation is screaming, 'We can't find God in church! How does God work in the broken places? Why are Christians so mean and scared and defensive? Where is the 'good news' part?

So why make a huge drama out of it if you're only going to forget all about it one day?

Surprising," says Lefebvre, "but reassuring in a way: At least we found one test that grassquits do well. If one of the species you're using in your experiment fails every test you give it, the problem may be you, the researcher, not the animal. You may have failed to understand what is relevant to the way a bird sees the world.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?

Everything matters.Everything you do touches someone in some way, even though you might not understand that.

he needed to be young or nothing about him made any sense

But my problem is the same one had by everyone who gathers information. What to do with it? How to sort and shape and use it? How to keep from drowning in it? Not every story needs to be told.

Time is irrelevant to math.

People in America are not ignorant of Christianity. They've heard the message, seen our churches on every corner, they flick by our Christian TV shows, they see our fish symbols on the backs of our cars. They've seen so much of pop Christian culture that they have a programmed response to us: Ignore, ignore, ignore. What's needed is a change of parameters—something that will alter their emotional response.

Andy? Really, who gives a shit?

Pretending something doesn't matter doesn't make it matter less.

It doesn't matter unless you let it matter.

Maybe even the smallest places mean something.

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.

It's a metaphor for life. If sports don't matter, then life doesn't matter.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them