Christopher Lewis’s Reviews > Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel > Status Update

"A religion that needs state power to enforce obedience to its beliefs is a religion that has lost confidence in the power of its Deity."

"Personal piety ought to alert us to questions of systemic injustice, but we cannot pretend that it does so."

"The culture of the kingdom is not a projection of our lives now onto eternity, but instead the reverse: a vision of a new creation that breaks us and prepares us for our inheritance by patterning us, now, after the life of creation's heir: Jesus himself."

Next . . the Bible tells me "no" . . . can't wait

"Turning the other cheek often leaves you with two broken jaws, but Jesus is still King and still right."

" . . . we ought also to be the last people on earth to uncritically laud any political leader or movement as though this were what we've been waiting for. We need leaders and allies, but we do not need a Messiah. That job is filled, and he's feeling fine."

"...this ordering structure of the universe is a word, a pattern of wisdom, a Logos. That is not an impersonal force, but instead a rather forceful Person, one we have come to know as Jesus of Nazareth."