jason fishburn

“The truth is that the Spirit of the living God is guaranteed to ask you to go somewhere or do something you wouldn’t normally want or choose to do. The Spirit will lead you to the way of the cross, as He led Jesus to the cross, and that is definitely not a safe or pretty or comfortable place to be. The Holy Spirit of God will mold you into the person you were made to be. This often incredibly painful process strips you of selfishness, pride, and fear. For”
― Francis Chan, Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit

“For I believe the crisis in the U.S. church has almost nothing to do with being liberal or conservative; it has everything to do with giving up on the faith and discipline of our Christian baptism and settling for a common, generic U.S. identity that is part patriotism, part consumerism, part violence, and part affluence.”
― Walter Brueggemann, A Way other than Our Own: Devotions for Lent

“Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.”
― Saint Gregory Of Nyssa

“Let’s pray that God would empower us so radically that we would get no glory. That people would see our works and glorify God.”
― Francis Chan, Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit