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You don’t have to teach children about fairness and unfairness. A sense of justice comes with the kit of being human. We know about it, as we say, in our bones.
“Love’, in the early Christian sense, is something you do, giving hospitality and practical help to those in need, particularly to other Christians who are poor, sick or hungry.”
― Revelation for Everyone
― Revelation for Everyone
“Conservative churches have spoken of miracles, in the sense of a god normally outside suddenly reaching in, doing something dramatic, and then going away again.”
― Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues
― Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues
“The church is never more at risk than when it sees itself merely as the solution bearer and forgets that every day it must say, “Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner,” and allow that confession to work its way into genuine humility even as it stands boldly before the world and its crazy empires.”
― Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues
― Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues
“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
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“God grant us grace to be so filled with that love that we may work in our own day with mature, Christian, sober intelligence to address the problem of evil, to implement the victory achieved on the cross, and to be agents, heralds, and living embodiments of that new creation in which the earth will be filled with the glory of God as the waters cover the sea.”
― Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues
― Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues
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