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5 metaphors in Scripture related to God’s intolerance of sin: height (YHWH Most High), distance (Moses & burning bush, the ark, etc.), light, fire, and vomiting (Canaanites in the OT and Laodicean church in the NT).

“Our evangelical emphasis on the atonement is dangerous if we come to it too quickly. We learn to appreciate access to God… only after we have first seen God’s inaccessibility to sinners.”

let the tandem reading commence!!!

starting this during finals week has to be one of the stupidest decisions I’ve ever made… but I’m just a girl 🤷‍♀️

“The Lord’s Supper, which was instituted by Jesus, and which is the only regular commemorative act authorized by him, dramatizes neither his birth nor his life, neither his words nor his works, but only his death… It was by his death that he wished above all else to be remembered… If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.”

oh boy oh boy oh boy!! here we go!!!

literally can’t put this book down and my sleep and possibly also my grades are suffering as a result 🫣

“As we face the cross, then, we can say to ourselves both, “I did it, my sins sent Him there,” and “He did it, His love took Him there.””

“Prayers without variety eventually become words without meaning.”

Woah

“If church is our family, then the boundary of our physical family life should be porous and flexible rather than fixed and inviolable.”

“If we balk at the idea of singleness being a gift, it is not because God has not understood us but because we have not understood him.”

“Jesus is not just an example of a nonhypocritical teacher. He is the example of the perfect man…He is the most complete and fully human person who ever lived. So his not being married is not incidental. It shows us that none of these things-marriage, romantic fulfillment, sexual experience-is intrinsic to being a full human being. The moment we say otherwise…we imply Jesus himself is only subhuman”