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That chapter on the Lord's Supper, Memory, Identity, and Time was transformative and definitely something I return to and think about in the future! Great, great stuff!

Absolutely brilliant so far!

Great pastoral preface! Holiday read while I'm away home in Brazil with the family. Gifted by my dear pastor Ian.

This book is essential!

“Christian virtue is a distinctively eccentric thing.” Meaning both that it’s odd and that it’s decidedly centered on something (or Someone) outside the self.” (133)

There is a real danger that some of our pastoral strategies within evangelicalism … have not taught Christians to distrust themselves properly, to recognize that their flesh will take [God’s] commandments and make them serve our self-exaltation against God. We have not taught believers that they will keep themselves from becoming Pharisees or idolaters only if they see their flesh for what it is. (104)