Patrick Willis

“As humans, we tend to take the blessings of the gospel—which should lead us to receiving Christ’s love and sharing it with others—and instead hoard them selfishly (even violently!) for ourselves. Doing this distorts the gospel from being others-focused to being self-focused.”
― Bill Hull, The Discipleship Gospel: What Jesus Preached—We Must Follow

“Nor is a total lack of doubt pertinent. When a doubter has become convinced that salvation depends upon the ability to truly trust, anxiety builds. The purportedly good news that the only needful thing is really to trust becomes a devastating word of condemnation. The faulty God-only-accepts-my-genuine-trust gospel puts doubters in a tailspin, but the true gospel of Jesus’s kingship gives a clear answer regarding salvation’s boundary: if a doubter continues to give allegiance to Jesus—the King revealed in the gospel—then that person is saved despite whatever doubts they harbor. Even on his or her most doubt-filled days, the doubter can still choose to give loyalty to King Jesus and his ways.”
― Matthew W. Bates, Why the Gospel?: Living the Good News of King Jesus with Purpose

“When you start following Jesus, you begin to prove you believe what he says.”
― Bill Hull, The Discipleship Gospel: What Jesus Preached—We Must Follow

“True faith won’t let us grab hold to safety or latch on to dry formulas. True faith won’t let us make an unflinching rule based on God’s prior action. What brings us comfort and peace this time won’t be God’s way next time. If we drew relief from predictable patterns”
― Winn Collier, Let God: Spiritual Conversations with François Fénelon