“To say in my culture, ‘God loves me,’ sounds rather romantic and unrealistic. It is the hardest thing for me to accept. In fact, I wonder if the root of much ungodliness in our lives, the root of our idols, the root of our adulterous thoughts and actions, the root of our addictions, the root of our pride, the root of our rebellion against God, is the fundamental resistance to the true love of the eternal Son of God for us.”
― A Theology of Mark: The Dynamic between Christology and Authentic Discipleship
― A Theology of Mark: The Dynamic between Christology and Authentic Discipleship
“Jesus combines a radical realism about who we really are with a profound, covenantal, unparalleled pursuit of us in love. And this leads us toward the identity, demeanor, and behavior of his new community. While we need to be transformed individually, there is always a communal effect.”
― A Theology of Mark: The Dynamic between Christology and Authentic Discipleship
― A Theology of Mark: The Dynamic between Christology and Authentic Discipleship
“Perfect Christians never miss an opportunity to judge other Christians on matters of conscience, and dropping some scathing remarks about their movie collection is a moment God prepared before the creation of the world for you to get a leg up on those spiritual failures.”
― How to Be a Perfect Christian: Your Comprehensive Guide to Flawless Spiritual Living
― How to Be a Perfect Christian: Your Comprehensive Guide to Flawless Spiritual Living
“A spiritual gift is a unique blend of supernaturally bestowed talents and passions granted to everyone who believes in Jesus. For instance, Moses had the spiritual gift of getting really mad and breaking stuff. Samson had the spiritual gift of growing a really dope beard. And Peter had the spiritual gift of saying the exact wrong thing at the exact wrong time.”
― How to Be a Perfect Christian: Your Comprehensive Guide to Flawless Spiritual Living
― How to Be a Perfect Christian: Your Comprehensive Guide to Flawless Spiritual Living
“Pride, anger, naivete, and nostalga are like Stalin's communists waiting to deliver Poland out of the hands of Hitler's Nazis. What looks like a rescue only recovers and repeats the oppression. When God's people walk out of God's house and respond to the folly they find under the sun by becoming foolish themselves, there is little wonder why it can seem that God is nowhere to be found in the news, our neighborhoods, or our daily toil. We become like firefighters who, upon entering a burning building, disdain the water hoses and instead turn confidently to blowtorches and try helplessly to douse what blazes.”
― Recovering Eden: The Gospel According to Ecclesiastes
― Recovering Eden: The Gospel According to Ecclesiastes
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