christopher spolar

“holiness points toward all that transcends the finiteness of this passing world. For us humans, holiness is being separate from evil, cleansed from fallenness, elevated to true Christ-likeness, finding a oneness with the life of God.”
― Barry Callen, The Holy River of God: Currents and Contributions of the Wesleyan Holiness Stream of Christianity

“Every human culture is an extremely complex mixture of brilliant truth, marred half-truths, and overt resistance to the truth.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City

“I never fully know the power of my invitations, even those that don’t get responses. I simply make them because they can, and do, change lives.”
― Charles H. Vogl, The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging

“Tanchanpongs argues, however, that it is wrong to look at Scripture and imagine that some core, essential teachings are more important than other, more tangential ones. In fact, Harvie Conn argued that syncretism is most likely to occur when (in the name of culture) we forbid the whole of Scripture to speak. Every culture will find some parts of Scripture more attractive and other parts more offensive. It will be natural, then, for those in that culture to consider the inoffensive parts more “important” and “essential” than the offensive parts.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City