David A. Wilson

“The Bible is there to enable God’s people to be equipped to do God’s work in God’s world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God’s truth.”
― N.T. Wright, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

“I will never forget when my spiritual director advised me, “John Mark, sit in your sin and let God love you.” He did not mean “Keep sinning and don’t feel guilty.” He meant “When you sin [and I will, as you will], don’t hide it from God. Hold it before God, with no excuses, no blame shifting, no denial, just utter vulnerability, and let God love you as you are. And then let God love you into who you have the potential to become.”
― John Mark Comer, Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.

“Suddenly, the cross begins to make sense not just as a solution to the human sin problem. It is that!—but also more. The cross reveals who God is, and who we need to become.”
― Matthew Bates, The Gospel Precisely: Surprisingly Good News About Jesus Christ the King

“Christian faith isn’t a general religious awareness. Nor is it the ability to believe several unlikely propositions. It is certainly not a kind of gullibility which would put us out of touch with any genuine reality. It is the faith which hears the story of Jesus, including the announcement that he is the world’s true Lord, and responds from the heart with a surge of grateful love that says: “Yes. Jesus is Lord.”
― N.T. Wright, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense