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Most of evangelism today is obsessed with getting someone to make a decision; the apostles, however, were obsessed with making disciples.
“At the nation’s top 130 colleges and universities, only 9 percent of first-year students are from the bottom half of the nation’s household income distribution, while 91 percent are from families in the top half of the income range.”
― Educating All God's Children: What Christians Can--and Should--Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids
― Educating All God's Children: What Christians Can--and Should--Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids
“Influence doesn’t happen by extracting ourselves from the world for the sake of our values, but by bringing our values into the culture.”
― The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community
― The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community
“Theology has suffered - among evangelicals as well as elsewhere - from an undue desire for clarity and control, something to which the often abstract and rarefied distinctions of Scholastic theology have contributed.”
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
“Effectiveness in life does not come from focusing on what is automatic, easy, or natural for us. Rather, it is the result of how we consciously strive to meet life’s harder challenges, grow beyond our comforts, and deliberately work to overcome our biases and preferences, so that we may understand, love, serve, and lead others.”
― High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way
― High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way
“The central paschal event - Christ's death, resurrection, and ascension - is something Christians participate in: God "made us alive with Christ," Paul insists (Eph. 2:5). He "raised us up with Christ" (Eph. 2:6; Col. 3:1). The result of this sharing in Christ is
that believers participate in heavenly realities. We are seated with Christ "in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:6; Eph. 1:3).”
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
that believers participate in heavenly realities. We are seated with Christ "in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:6; Eph. 1:3).”
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
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