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“Jesus did not come to give the disciples the perfect update to the religious operating system or to install an invincible antivirus program; the kingdom of God brings an entirely new operating system.”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“When the Western world accepted Christianity, Caesar conquered; and the received text of Western theology was edited by his lawyers.”
― Tripp Fuller, Divine Self-Investment: An Open and Relational Constructive Christology

“I assume that if God is anything like Jesus, then living in fear is a waste of time.”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“The resurrection is more than just a statement about Jesus—it is a promise from God. This promise insists that the cross-bearer and the kin-dom he proclaimed will be God’s final word to the cross-building powers of this world.”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“I couldn’t imagine a Christian theology that treated all intellectual challenges as opponents to be demolished prior to theologizing.”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“Without the faithfulness of Abraham and Sarah, the Exodus from Egypt, the voice of the Prophets, and so on, Jesus could not have been the Christ. Jesus was born into a community that was graced with this inheritance and he is the fruit of it.”
― Tripp Fuller, Divine Self-Investment: An Open and Relational Constructive Christology

“Sobrino portrays the ministry of Jesus not only as the proclamation of God’s reign, but also as the prophetic unmasking of the antikingdom. In Jesus’ encounters with oppression, he insists that the people’s needs trump ceremonial perfection. To love God is to practice goodwill toward the oppressed. God cannot be used to justify any form or structure of oppression. Thus, to encounter Jesus is to unmask the antikingdom and its structures of sin.”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“The task for Peter, and for those of us seized and riddled by the Christ, is not to get Jesus’ title correct, as if faith amounts to proper labeling. No, the task of the disciple is to understand the content of the confession and then begin the journey to inhabit that same mind that was in Christ Jesus.”
― Tripp Fuller, Divine Self-Investment: An Open and Relational Constructive Christology

“Since I believe God was being revealed in Jesus, the simple fact that he took sides with the poor and oppressed of his day means that I can’t ignore it, and as a disciple I have to try and do the same today. That’s”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“Jesus does more than prove the existence of God to the intellectual and cultured skeptics; he shows what God is actually like, and he opposes all impostors.”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“Interpretations of the cross in which the ministry of Jesus is unnecessary are particularly problematic and have been historically influential as the church came to give more politically ambivalent and individualistic interpretations.”
― Tripp Fuller, Divine Self-Investment: An Open and Relational Constructive Christology

“To love and pray for your enemies is actually something much more radical: destroying the label of enemy altogether.”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“While Jesus does not provide a simple definition of the kingdom, it was for him a life-determining reality within which God was present.”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“Figuring out what the idols are in our world is the easy part. The hard part has been coming to grips with my own love for other gods and the comfort and security my devotion to them brings.”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“God is not simply bound exclusively to the cross of Christ, but God is bound, as the God of love, to crosses littered across history.”
― Tripp Fuller, Divine Self-Investment: An Open and Relational Constructive Christology