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“This burden of extraordinary impact weighs heavily, first, on the shoulders of pastors. But here is the good news: it is not your ministry, church, or people. You do not have to create and protect a personal legacy, but simply to distribute and guard Christ's legacy entrusted to his apostles. You don't have to bind Satan and storm the gates of hell. Christ has already done this. We're just sweeping in behind him to unlock the prison doors.”
― Michael S. Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World

“If this were all the Bible discloses about God, we would read in its pages of a holy God of impeccable justice. But what of love? The love of Allah is providential, which, as we saw in the first chapter, is one of the ways the Bible speaks of God. But here there is more: in eternity past, the Father loved the Son, and the Son loved the Father. There has always been an other-orientation to the love of God. All the manifestations of the love of God emerge out of this deeper, more fundamental reality: love is bound up in the very nature of God. God is love.”
― D.A. Carson, The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God