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“Evangelism is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end: restoring the image bearers’ capacity for relationship and worship, where the true Creator God is named, known and blessed.”
― Andy Crouch, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power

“There is perhaps no single thing that could better help us recover Jesus’ lordship in our frantic, power-hungry world than to allow him to be Lord of our rest as well as our work. The challenge is disarmingly simple: one day a week, not to do anything that we know to be work.”
― Andy Crouch, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power

“Over and over in the Gospels, Jesus interrupts his agenda for those who have nothing to offer him but need everything from him.”
― Andy Crouch, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power

“True greatness and true power is faithful all the way down, including humbly quick to admit limitedness, sin and brokenness, and to ask for forgiveness.”
― Andy Crouch, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power