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“Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.”
― Dallas Willard, The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus's Essential Teachings on Discipleship

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“The resurrection completes the inauguration of God's kingdom. . . . It is the decisive event demonstrating thet God's kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven."

"The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.”
― N. T. Wright

“Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.”
― Stanley M. Hauerwas

“The disciples’ love is witness-bearing; it is missional communal theosis. It is how “everyone”—literally “all” (pantes)—will come to know that the disciples are disciples of Jesus (13:35; cf. 17:21–23). This could sound like a rather minimalist goal, conveying knowledge of identity. But far more is at stake. The disciples’ mutual love is necessary for an effective witness that ultimately points not to themselves, but to Jesus the Son and to God the Father, that is, to the One whose own love is the means and mode of the world’s salvation (cf. 17:20–26). The goal is for others to enter the eternal life that consists, not in knowing facts, but in knowing the Father and the Son (17:3).”
― Michael J. Gorman, Abide and Go: Missional Theosis in the Gospel of John

“At its inception and in its best moments, the church as Christ’s body offered the world communion where there was previously animosity, ploughshares and pruning hooks from swords and spears, the peaceable kingdom come alive. The church not only welcomes the stranger, but is the stranger, constituted as she is entirely by migrants, herself a migrant through the world.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, Minding the Web: Making Theological Connections

“Christians worship at the church of martyrs; they seek fellowship with the crucified Lord. Being a Christian is not about being safe, but about challenging the status quo in ways that cannot help but put you in danger. Thinking it possible to be safe in a world where Christians are sent out like sheep among wolves is about as unfortunate an idea as thinking that war is necessary to secure peace.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, Minding the Web: Making Theological Connections

“This is to say that while voting and lobbying and marching and sheltering are all political, more basically political is the gathered body of Christ.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, Minding the Web: Making Theological Connections

“The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, In Good Company: The Church as Polis

“The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer In Christian Ethics

“My oft-made claim, a claim that many find offensive, that the first task of the church is not to make the world just but to make the world the world, is rightly understood only in light of these eschatological convictions.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, Approaching the End: Eschatological Reflections on Church, Politics, and Life

“As long as it is assumed that war is always an available option, we will not be forced to imagine any alternative to war.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

“In an analysis of these revisions, Samuel Perry found that editors manipulated the text, introducing text nonexistent in the RSV to reinforce men’s ecclesial authority.27 Perry states that ESV editors “intentionally” changed the text to “make various verses and passages about gender roles in the family, gender roles in the church, and masculinity and femininity more agreeable to complementarian interpretations.”
― Jennifer McKinney, Making Christianity Manly Again: Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill Church, and American Evangelicalism