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Christian missiologists identify three responses to sin in human cultures: guilt, shame, and fear. These three moral emotions have become the foundation for three types of culture: (1) guilt-innocence cultures are individualistic societies
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“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!”
― The Other Worldview: Exposing Christianity's Greatest Threat
― The Other Worldview: Exposing Christianity's Greatest Threat
“Our faith is anchored to a miscarriage of justice. The worst possible thing happened to the best possible person.”
― Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church
― Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church
“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
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“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
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“To be called to a life of extraordinary quality, to live up to it, and yet to be unconscious of it is indeed a narrow way. To confess and testify to the truth as it is in Jesus, and at the same time to love the enemies of that truth, his enemies and ours, and to love them with the infinite love of Jesus Christ, is indeed a narrow way. To believe the promise of Jesus that his followers shall possess the earth, and at the same time to face our enemies unarmed and defenceless, preferring to incur injustice rather than to do wrong ourselves, is indeed a narrow way. To see the weakness and wrong in others, and at the same time refrain from judging them; to deliver the gospel message without casting pearls before swine, is indeed a narrow way. The way is unutterably hard, and at every moment we are in danger of straying from it. If we regard this way as one we follow in obedience to an external command, if we are afraid of ourselves all the time, it is indeed an impossible way. But if we behold Jesus Christ going on before step by step, we shall not go astray.”
― The Cost of Discipleship
― The Cost of Discipleship
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