Andrew Bondurant

“Race, as we often use the term (not as in ethnicity or people group, like Revelation 7:9), is an evolutionary construct. Our country has a sordid history of using that construct to oppress image bearers. That history impacts the church, no matter what we call it. Biblically specific language is a must. Dismissing issues based solely on terminology isn’t helpful.”
― Jasmine L. Holmes, Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope

“People, place, and presence. What humanity lost through Adam and Eve’s rebellion in the garden will be regained through the promise made to Abraham and his descendants.”
― Matthew S Harmon, Rebels and Exiles: A Biblical Theology of Sin and Restoration

“My son, I want you to be shrewd, careful, and to guard your party affiliation carefully beneath the shadow of the cross. Donkeys and elephants be hanged. Because that’s the only allegiance that offers a roadmap out of the mire of the political mess we’ve made.”
― Jasmine L. Holmes, Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope

“The abundance of the gifts of the Spirit . . . does not mean that the believer will be transferred from a struggling faith to a purely triumphant faith but that the believer will become a participant, by the Spirit, in the glorification of Christ,” a glorification, we recall, that entails a Cross.”
― Frederick Dale Bruner, The Gospel of John: A Commentary