Jason

“It is a palpable error of some ministers, who make such a disproportion between their preaching and their living; who study hard to preach exactly, and study little or not at all to live exactly.”
― Richard Baxter, THE REFORMED PASTOR

“The cross is laid on every Christian. The first Christ-suffering which every man must experience is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. It is that dying of the old man which is the result of his encounter with Christ. As we embark upon discipleship we surrender ourselves to Christ in union with his death—we give over our lives to death. Thus it begins; the cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise god-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“Redemption is participatory, not imitative.”
― Richard F. Lovelace, Dynamics of Spiritual Life: An Evangelical Theology of Renewal

“Spiritual life flows out of union with Christ, not merely imitation of Christ.”
― Richard F. Lovelace, Dynamics of Spiritual Life: An Evangelical Theology of Renewal