Joel Halpin

“Our faith is anchored to a miscarriage of justice. The worst possible thing happened to the best possible person.”
― Andy Stanley, Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church

“our nation’s challenges do not stem from the church’s inability to convince unbelievers to behave like believers. Our challenges stem from the church’s inability to inspire believers to behave like believers.”
― Andy Stanley, Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church

“Paul says that “they exchanged the truth about God for [the] lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator” (Rom 1:25).24 I read that verse many times before I realized that Paul was declaring the existence of only two ways to live and think—only two ways to believe. Human beings, he says, worship and serve either “the creature” or “the Creator.” Such a simple yet profound contrast, Paul!”
― Peter Jones, The Other Worldview: Exposing Christianity's Greatest Threat

“In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbour hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility. The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behaviour must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship