Hope trusts in the promises of God. Hope seeks the action of God that brings forth a new reality. Optimism stands in the current reality, wishing to make the best of each individual experience. But hope stands knee deep in the history of this reality by yearning for the action of God to bring forth a new reality in which everything in this reality is reconciled and redeemed.

~ Andrew Root

Andrew Root Hope Mission Practical Theology Theology Theology Of The Cross Youth Ministry

The resurrection is the promise that death will not prevail, that nothingness does not have the last word. God promises to overcome it with life... We can trust that God will overcome death because Jesus is the resurrection, because on the third day Jesus rose again, as the first of many.

~ Andrew Root

Andrew Root Practical Theology Resurrection Theology

Grace is costly because it calls us through our person to the person of Jesus Christ. And when we follow the person of Jesus Christ, when we follow his call through our person, we're sent to act for the concrete person of our neighbor in the world.

~ Andrew Root

Andrew Root Bonhoeffer Costly Grace Theology Youth Ministry

The Anselmian call for faith seeking understanding may start and gather it's energy not in rational study of past theological points but in the pursuit to make sense of our concrete and lived experiences of Jesus who finds us in a hole, knocks us from our horse, or comes to our daughter in her sleep.

~ Andrew Root

Andrew Root Anselm Christopraxis Practical Theology Theology

The Anselmian call for faith seeking understanding may start and gather its energy not in rational study of past theological points but in the pursuit to make sense of our concrete and lived experiences of Jesus who finds us in a hole, knocks us from our horse, or comes to our daughter in her sleep.

~ Andrew Root

Andrew Root Anselm Christopraxis Practical Theology Theology Theology Of The Cross

Theology starts with a crisis, the very crisis of reality itself. The crisis is the fact that you live, that you have a life to live. … The crisis is the very mystery of our existence and the yearning for there to be some kind of meaning to it.

~ Andrew Root

Andrew Root Crisis Faith Theology

The point of the mission trip is to invite young people to act in ways that witness to the promise of God's action, which will make all things new.

~ Andrew Root

Andrew Root Mission Mission Trip Youth Ministry

Apathy sets in when our passion for the future is miscarried.

~ Andrew Root

Andrew Root Apathy Mission Youth Ministry