Adam Potter

“every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, [which] will “turn the necessity to glorious gain.”
― Preston Sprinkle, Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church

“describing singleness as “a rare calling,” which is neither a common position in Christian history (at best we may say that most Protestants in the West have recently begun to think like this) nor a plausible reading of the New Testament,”
― Preston Sprinkle, Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church

“Already in the Old Testament, God’s love for Israel had been compared to the marital bond (Isa 62:5; Jer 2–3; Ezek 16; Hos 1–3), but here that imagery becomes Christologically specific. It is the love of Christ for the church, a love that will culminate in an eschatological wedding feast (Rev 19:7, 9; cf. 21:2), that earthly couples image and in which they participate. The created good of marriage, marked by its openness to children and its faithful union, is taken up into Christian life and made to be an outward and visible sign of the love of God in Christ. In”
― Preston Sprinkle, Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church

“those who disagree with us are still making arguments from Scripture, from the wisdom of the tradition, from humble, prayerful struggles to follow Jesus faithfully—loving God and neighbor.”
― Preston Sprinkle, Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church