Ryan Burgett

“If that’s all that reading this book does for you – causes you to ask the hard questions –then it’ll have done its job.  So long as we remain stuck in an apathetic certainty we’ll continue to stagnate.  Some people are only one or two questions away from freedom, and had I been willing to think for myself and poke holes in the “holy”, I may have not spent so many years in a religious fog.”
― Jeff Turner, Saints in the Arms of a Happy God

“Today, I no longer try to be good; instead, I am only concerned with doing God’s bidding. What He commands, I do. Now my personal life is more conformed to His righteousness and character than it used to be. Following His commands does not leave much time for sin.”
― John Wimber, Power Evangelism

“Biblically, God is repeatedly depicted as facing a partially open future. Theologically, several unsolvable problems inherent in the classical view can be avoided when one accepts that God is the God of the possible and not simply a God of eternally static certainties. Practically, a God of eternally static certainties is incapable of interacting with humans in a relevant way. The God of the possible, by contrast, is a God who can work with us to truly change what might have been into what should be.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, God of the Possible: A Biblical Introduction to the Open View of God

“Just as the Anabaptists were scorned by Protestants and Catholics alike, anarchism been dismissed equally by the political Left and Right in modernity.  But in our age of political bankruptcy, this is perhaps the best endorsement.  With Ellul, I think that anarchism deserves to be reconsidered, particularly by Christians, and even more particularly by contemporary Anabaptists. ”
― Van Steenwyk, Mark, That Holy Anarchist