Javier

“You must decide whether to insist upon the absolute correctness of your view, or to listen and negotiate. You don’t get peace by being right. You just get to be right, while your partner gets to be wrong—defeated and wrong. Do that ten thousand times and your marriage will be over (or you will wish it was). To choose the alternative—to seek peace—you have to decide that you want the answer, more than you want to be right. That’s the way out of the prison of your stubborn preconceptions. That’s the prerequisite for negotiation. That’s to truly abide by the principle of Rule 2 (Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping).”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“importance is the marriage between the salvation of the soul and the reformation of the cultural. No longer can we fall into the false dichotomy of the mission of the church being either evangelism or social change. We must embrace the fact that the gospel calls us to both proclaim Jesus and to bring the reforming light of the gospel to the dark areas of our society. We must do our best to eradicate evil wherever it exists and to preserve the beauty and good that is present in our communities.”
― Sean McDowell, A New Kind of Apologist: *Adopting Fresh Strategies *Addressing the Latest Issues *Engaging the Culture

“Most apologists would likely agree that the reason it is so difficult to communicate Christian truths these days is that the cultural assumptions about the nature of God, humanity, and truth have undergone great changes. The vast majority of people have not carefully considered the arguments on both sides and made an informed decision about their worldview and perspectives on life. Instead, they have responded in the same way they might catch a cold—they breathe in the germs of prevailing assumptions from the cultural air around them, and this determines their belief system. With this being the case, the difficulty we face is that conscious thinking isn’t necessarily the primary problem. It isn’t so much that people are unconvinced because the arguments for faith don’t make sense to them, but rather that a religious perspective of any kind is not so much seen as irrational as it is seen as inconceivable. For many people it is almost impossible to even entertain the possibility of faith.”
― Sean McDowell, A New Kind of Apologist: *Adopting Fresh Strategies *Addressing the Latest Issues *Engaging the Culture

“Christianity has the opportunity, therefore, to speak clearly of the fact that its answer has the very thing that modern man has despaired of—the unity of thought. It provides a unified answer for the whole of life. It is true that man will have to renounce his rationalism, but then, on the basis of what can be discussed, he has the possibility of recovering his rationality. You may now see why I stressed so strongly, earlier, the difference between rationalism and rationality. Modern man has lost the latter. But he can have it again with a unified answer to life on the basis of what is open to verification and discussion.”
― Francis A. Schaeffer, Escape from Reason: A Penetrating Analysis of Trends in Modern Thought