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“For our Christian groups and their leaders, it means that there is a simple, straightforward way in which congregations of Jesus’ people can, without exception, fulfill his call to be an ecclesia, his “called out” ones: a touch point between heaven and earth, where the healing of the Cross and the Resurrection can save the lost and grow the saved into the fullness of human beings in Christ. No special facilities, programs, talents, or techniques are required. It doesn’t even require a budget. Just faithfulness to the process of spiritual formation in Christlikeness exposed in the Scriptures and in the lives of his “peculiar people” through the ages (Titus 2:14, KJV).”
― Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

“Faith is thus the channel or connection to the power of the gospel, just as a light switch is the channel or connection between a light bulb and an electrical source.”
― Timothy Keller, Romans 1-7 For You: For reading, for feeding, for leading

“There will be a joyful obedience that flows from truly trusting this King. As the great sixteenth-century Reformer Martin Luther put it: “We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.” It brings about grateful, joyful, trusting obedience.”
― Timothy Keller, Romans 1-7 For You: For reading, for feeding, for leading

“Everyone needs the gospel, both the “you” inside the church and the “you” who are yet outside it. The gospel is the way people are called to faith, and the way people grow in faith.”
― Timothy Keller, Romans 1-7 For You: For reading, for feeding, for leading