Torrie

“nice and talk about Jesus all the time. It’s not rocket science.”
― Carl Medearis, Speaking of Jesus: The Art of Not-Evangelism

“Understanding the doctrine of forgiveness does not deliver us from sin. Jesus does.”
― Carl Medearis, Speaking of Jesus: The Art of Not-Evangelism

“Miller concludes: “To a culture that believes they ‘go to heaven’ based on whether or not they are morally pure, or that they understand some theological ideas, or that they are very spiritual, Jesus is completely unnecessary. At best, He is an afterthought, a technicality by which we become morally pure, or a subject of which we know, or a founding father of our woo-woo spirituality.”5”
― Carl Medearis, Speaking of Jesus: The Art of Not-Evangelism

“As Paul Hawken keenly observed, Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course.… We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night and we watch television.1”
― Louie Giglio, Indescribable: Encountering the Glory of God in the Beauty of the Universe