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“The shocking truth of the gospel, is that it is not God who distances himself from the Church because He is offended at her sin, but the Church who has consistently drawn back from the power of the full Gospel, because she is offended at God’s generosity!”
― Phelim Doherty, By the Grace of God.: The power of the Gospel to bring us out of religion and into relationship, with the Father we never knew.

“Yet, having been supernaturally birthed and formed by the nourishment of the gospel, multitudes of believers enter a church system that subtly withdraws from them the pure food that brought life (“you only need to believe to become”) and tries to grow believers on a far inferior message (“you need to do to become”).”
― Phelim Doherty, The Father We Never Knew: The Unbinding of the Lazarus Church by the Restoration of the Gospel

“It is not the promise of the sun that makes the darkness flee but the presence of the sun.”
― Phelim Doherty, Heaven Couldn’t Wait.: A Gospel for the powerless, in a world of performance.