Josh

“I did not read the Bible to find Jesus but to answer the question, what should I do? I read indiscriminately and was often confused by scriptures that seemed to contradict each other. My solution was to go for balance: A little of this, a little of that, for all scripture is profitable. But by failing to filter what I read through the finished work of the cross, I unwittingly poisoned myself. I mixed the death-dealing words of the law with the life-giving words of grace. I thought I was zealous for the Lord, but in truth I was lukewarm. I was neither under the stone-cold ministry of the law nor walking in the white-hot heat of God’s love and grace.”
― Paul Ellis, Grace Disco: Escape to Reality Greatest Hits, Volume 1

“Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.”
― Jack Miller

“The transplanted bias they now had organically strapped to their backs set them up to be little copycats of the archetypical eisegete they had so carelessly heeded in the garden. (A textbook example of “What you win them with is what you win them to.”)68 They spent the rest of their lives (and remember, they lived a long, long time) eisegeting the world. And they passed this interpretation virus on to each of their children. And to their children’s children. We all eisegete before we exegete.69 Always. It is in our blood.”
― Michael Matthews, A Novel Approach: The Significance of Story in Interpreting and Communicating Reality

“Reality is not only who God is and what he creates; reality is also how God and creation relate. Reality is chock-full of relationships: God with God; God with angels; God with Satan; God with demons; God with nature; God with mankind; angels with God; angels with angels; angels with Satan; angels with demons; angels with mankind; mankind with God; mankind with angels; mankind with Satan; mankind with demons; mankind with nature; mankind with mankind. And on and on. The intrigue of all these relationships writes the storyline of reality. Reality can be pictured simply as dots and lines. The dots are the entities of reality; the lines are the interactions and relationships between the entities.”
― Michael Matthews, A Novel Approach: The Significance of Story in Interpreting and Communicating Reality