Mac McCarthy

Husband | Father to 3 boys | Pastor at @crosspointwi | Coach for @GravityLeaders

[Mac McCarthy @mac_mccarthy]

The practical irrelevance of actual obedience to Christ accounts for the weakening effect of Christianity in the world today. @DallasAWillard

[Mac McCarthy @mac_mccarthy]

The church has become but one among many voluntary associations of like-minded people from similar economic strata.
— Stanley Hauerwas

[Mac McCarthy @mac_mccarthy]

Theology is not a matter of being liberal or conservative but a matter of truth. — Stanley Hauerwas

[Mac McCarthy @mac_mccarthy]

The root of our anxiety is our disconnection from God; this means we cannot be a non-anxious presence without God’s presence.
— Mark Sayers

[Mac McCarthy @mac_mccarthy]

There can be no personal holiness without social holiness.
— M. Robert Mulholland Jr.

[Mac McCarthy @mac_mccarthy]

Colourblindness is sub-biblical and falls short of the glory of God. @esaumccaulley

[Mac McCarthy @mac_mccarthy]

Moderation or the middle ground is not always the loci or righteousness. @esaumccaulley

[Mac McCarthy @mac_mccarthy]

Peacemaking cannot be separated from truth telling. The church’s witness does not involve simply denouncing the excesses of both sides and making moral equivalencies. It involves calling justice by its name.

[Mac McCarthy @mac_mccarthy]

If God thinks that fear based punishment is something to be cast out (1 Jn 4:18), then our Gospel and preaching better not rest on that foundation! @bradjersak

[Sharon Hodde Miller @SHoddeMiller]

I suspect some of the widespread exhaustion we are seeing in people is the result of returning to our pre-pandemic pace of life without our pre-pandemic emotional reserves.

[Mac McCarthy @mac_mccarthy]

Justice is what love looks like in public. @CornelWest

[Mac McCarthy @mac_mccarthy]

Preaching, teaching, and serving a nonpolitical Jesus constitutes an un-Christian abdication of responsibility to wage struggle against the demonic structures of oppression that militate against the justice of God. @oberyhendricks

[Mac McCarthy @mac_mccarthy]

The basis of biblical justice is fulfillment of our responsibilities to and relationships with others as the ultimate fulfillment of our responsibility to God.
@oberyhendricks

[Mac McCarthy @mac_mccarthy]

The overriding political task of the church is to be the community of the cross. — Stanley Hauerwas

[Mac McCarthy @mac_mccarthy]

@greg_boyd What do you do if you have an infestation of mice???

[Mac McCarthy @mac_mccarthy]

N. America is one of the toughest mission fields the church has attempted. Most Americans assume that we live in a society that is at least vestigially Christian…people have absorbed just enough Christianity to inoculate them against the contagion by the real thing.
-Willimon

[Carlos A. Rodríguez @CarlosHappyNPO]

When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them – and that is of course because they fully accept the system and identify themselves with it.

~Thomas Merton

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

The way we define the gospel will always determine the scope of our mission.

[Mac McCarthy @mac_mccarthy]

There are 550 references to remembering in the Bible. It is by remembering that we start to see how present God is in our lives—at work in all things, all people, all places, and at all times. @PeteGreig