Harbison Chapel, Grove City College

Harbison Chapel, Grove City College

Harbison Chapel, Grove City College

Grove City, PA

February 15, 2011

9:30 AM

Dr. Tony Campolo

Harbison Chapel, Grove City College

Grove City, PA

February 15, 2011

9:30 AM

  1. What happens to Christianity in the next 50 years has everything to do with how you respond to the call of Christ.
  2. Every study has shown that your generation is more spiritual than any generation in the last 200 years, part of the post-modern ethos.
  3. You tend to be irreligious, you give Jesus high marks but not the church.
  4. “I love Jesus but the church is full of hypocrites.” That’s why you’re going to feel right at home among us.
  5. I’m not what I ought to be, but in spite of the flaws and shortcomings I’m not what I was, I’m on my way.
  6. Philippians 3:13-14
  7. All of us here are hypocrites.
  8. “The church is a whore, but she is my mother.”
  9. The church is a whore, but despite all its shortcomings, it is still his instrument to change the world into what it should be.
  10. Changing statistics, the role of the church is ending starvation, etc.
  11. Sometimes the church thinks it’s going to get supporters by telling people how bad things are getting. In reality, things are getting better.
  12. The parable of the wheat and the tares.
  13. While the kingdom of evil is growing, the kingdom of God is also growing up.
  14. The church in America is on the skids, but the church is exploding in other places, like Korea.
  15. Isaiah 65.
  16. Habitat for Humanity has completed 300,000 houses, and will complete another 300,000 in the next 2 years.
  17. Don’t walk away from the church, because the church is the best instrument for doing the work of God.
  18. Story about a Grad student who went to a village in Haiti and started creating a lot of jobs, so that the income of this village has now soared.
  19. Story about being asked “Are you ready to die” when he was 12 years old.
  20. It starts by teaching people how to pray so that the Holy Spirit can move them.
  21. In addition to all the social stuff, the church is the greatest instrument on the personal level.
  22. The best days of the church are ahead, not behind.
  23. The church will not march out of history a battered beaten army. It will march out victorious.
  24. TS Eliot was wrong; the world doesn’t end with a whimper.
  25. The church exists for the benefit of non-members.
  26. The kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of God.
  27. I read the Bible, I know how it ends, we win.

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