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We have witnessed this throughout history when Christian institutions go to bed with power and then embody practices that are antithetical to the gospel.
“We’ve got enough people on Facebook telling us about their perfect lives. We’ve got more celebrities crafting fictional reality lives than we can possibly stand. What we’re missing is people who, when they fail, say, “This too shall post.” We”
― Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters
― Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters
“As you guide, you’re going to disappoint people who want your time or your input or your attendance. And often you won’t be able to give it to them. But it’s okay to disappoint people, as long as you make sure you’re disappointing (and guiding) the right people. The biggest lesson for me was to not say yes to things I am ultimately going to say no to.”
― Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters
― Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters
“Regardless of ability or stage, human life is sacred precisely because we are the creatures God put on earth to represent him.”
― The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible
― The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible
“The proper context for interpreting the Bible is the context of the biblical writers— the context that produced the Bible. 1 Every other context is alien to the biblical writers and, therefore, to the Bible. Yet there is a pervasive tendency in the believing Church to filter the Bible through creeds, confessions , and denominational preferences.”
― The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible
― The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible
“GOD’S GIFT We might wonder why God doesn’t do away with evil and suffering on earth. The answer sounds paradoxical: He can’t—because that would require elimination of all his imagers. But he will at the last day. For evil to be eliminated, Earth and humanity as we know it would have to end. God has a chronology, a plan, for this ultimate development. It could be no other way, given his decision to create time-bound humans as the vehicles for his rule. But in the meantime, we experience the positive wonders of life as well. Though God knew the risk of Eden, he deemed the existence of humankind preferable to our eternal absence. Despite the risk of evil, free will is a wonderful gift. God’s decision was a loving one. Understanding that requires only a consideration of the two alternatives: (1) not having life at all, and (2) being a mindless robot, capable only of obeying commands and responding to programming.”
― The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible
― The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible
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