Marc Alan Schelske > Quotes

“It’s one thing to see the cross as God’s tragic sacrifice to benefit me eternally. It’s an entirely different thing to see the cross as God standing with all of humanity and inviting us to do the same.”
― Marc Alan Schelske, Walking Otherward: Forty Meditations on Following Jesus’ Path of Other-centered, Co-suffering Love

“Love has no use for coercion. It does no violence. Truth doesn’t play the games of corrupt politicians. As more and more people choose to follow Jesus’ way of love and truth,∗ empires of violence and corruption lose their power.”
― Marc Alan Schelske, Walking Otherward: Forty Meditations on Following Jesus’ Path of Other-centered, Co-suffering Love

“We who follow Jesus cannot simply use the label Biblical to justify our desire to punish, exclude, or control others. As important as it is, the Bible is not our Lord and Savior—Jesus is. The standard by which we measure our actions is not 'Is it Biblical?' but 'Is it Christlike?”
― Marc Alan Schelske, Walking Otherward: Forty Meditations on Following Jesus’ Path of Other-centered, Co-suffering Love

“If Jesus is a revelation of the Father’s nature, then we know something new about God that humanity didn’t always know. God is not into coercion. God draws. God persuades. God invites. Those walking the other-centered, co-suffering way of Jesus are invited to this same commitment.”
― Marc Alan Schelske, Walking Otherward: Forty Meditations on Following Jesus’ Path of Other-centered, Co-suffering Love

“Even in the darkest places of pain, God is present. Even in our most isolating, humiliating experiences, God is with us. If God is with us in our painful powerlessness, then surely God is with the others. All the others. The ones we would rather not look in the eye. The ones we dismiss as the inevitable casualties of maintaining a society that is comfortable for us. The ones we think had it coming. The ones that power crushes.”
― Marc Alan Schelske, Walking Otherward: Forty Meditations on Following Jesus’ Path of Other-centered, Co-suffering Love

“We who follow Jesus cannot simply use the label Biblical to justify our desire to punish, exclude, or control others. As important as it is, the Bible is not our Lord and Savior—Jesus
is. The standard by which we measure our actions is not 'Is it Biblical?' but 'Is it Christlike?”
― Marc Alan Schelske, Walking Otherward: Forty Meditations on Following Jesus’ Path of Other-centered, Co-suffering Love

“On the steps of Pilate’s palace, two men stood: One, a peaceful teacher who invited others to a new life marked by other-centered, co-suffering love—the other, a likely revolutionary who attempted to bring freedom through violence. The crowd was invited to choose. At that moment, and in so many moments since, the crowd picked the path of expediency and the long-standing human dream of peace through retributive violence. The way of Jesus challenges us to choose the harder path.”
― Marc Alan Schelske, Walking Otherward: Forty Meditations on Following Jesus’ Path of Other-centered, Co-suffering Love