Regaining a Prophetic Voice

Associate Pastor Rev. Greg Briggs

August 18, 2013

Bethlehem United Church of Christ

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Jeremiah 23:30-31

“See, therefore, I am against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who steal my words from one another. See I am against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who use their own tongues and say, ‘Says the Lord.’”

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1 John 3:17

“But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?”

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“If you and I find joy in ridicule ... We are destroying the body of Christ.”

Bruce Reyes Chow#ncli2013

Stephen Colbert, “The Colbert Report”

“When one tree in a forest is sick, the tree is sick. When half the trees in the forest are sick, it’s a blight.”Carol Howard Merritt#ncli2013

“Every social movement needs allies: women needed men, blacks needed whites, gays needed straights to obtain their rights.” Bishop Yvette Flunder#ncli2013

“We [Christians] have to be hospice chaplains & new church obstetricians.”Rev. Mike Piazza#ncli2013