Mike Yaconelli Quotes
Sin is more than turning our backs on God - it is turning our backs on life! Immorality is much more than adultery and dishonesty: it is living drab, colorless, dreary, stale, unimaginative lives.
Yaconelli, Mike. Dangerous Wonder: The Adventure of Childlike Faith. NavPress, 1998.
Fifty years later, the Taliban of Afghanistan make the fundamentalist prohibition against music the law. See {620308}. Where he got his ‘facts’ about music is unknown, but it does not even comport with Islamic history. The Muslim Ottoman Turks invented the military band and the playing of music to increase men’s courage. It was so effective that virtually every other military on earth adopted the use of a military band playing music. Yet this Ayatiollah claimed music stifled courage and valor.
This was the at the time, a typical assessment of the English, Welsh and Scotts about the Irish who were perceived as a lower class of nation. Most interesting was the irreligious perception of a people who would become the most faithful and orthodox of Roman Catholics.
Mike Yaconelli was a writer, theologian, church leader and satirist. Co-Founder of Youth Specialties, a training organization for Christian youth leaders, and The Wittenburg Door (sometimes just The Door), a satirical magazine, Yaconelli was also the pastor of a small church in Yreka, California - "the slowest growing church in America" as he called it. He and wife Karla used to share their time between Yreka and the Youth Specialties offices in El Cajon, California.
