“Christ's atonement fully satisfied the demands of God's righteousness, so forgiveness and mercy are guaranteed to those who receive Christ in humble, repentant faith.”
― The Vanishing Conscience: Drawing the Line in a No-Fault, Guilt-Free World
― The Vanishing Conscience: Drawing the Line in a No-Fault, Guilt-Free World
“The church is biblical, therefore, when it seeks to embody the words in the power of the Spirit and so become a living commentary.”
― Faith Speaking Understanding: Performing the Drama of Doctrine
― Faith Speaking Understanding: Performing the Drama of Doctrine
“Right worship, the kind that is pleasing to God, acknowledges the grace that is in Jesus Christ not only with our lips but also with our lives. Christ’s own sacrifice makes possible the right kind of offering and proper worship: the sacrifice of the whole of our lives, a thanksgiving existence that proceeds from a mood of gratitude. Worship”
― The Pastor as Public Theologian: Reclaiming a Lost Vision
― The Pastor as Public Theologian: Reclaiming a Lost Vision
“As Søren Kierkegaard says in the opening pages of The Sickness unto Death (the sickness in question is despair): “Everything essentially Christian must have in its presentation a resemblance to the way a physician speaks at the sickbed.”
― The Pastor as Public Theologian: Reclaiming a Lost Vision
― The Pastor as Public Theologian: Reclaiming a Lost Vision
“Christian identity, the role disciples have been called to play, requires being with others. It takes two or three gathered in Christ’s name fully to represent him. It takes a company.”
― Faith Speaking Understanding: Performing the Drama of Doctrine
― Faith Speaking Understanding: Performing the Drama of Doctrine
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