“Gospel fruit (addressing felt needs) should not be confused with gospel root — the substitutionary death of Christ.”
—Tom Steffen
Blog, page 35
“before we had done anything, God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself”
–2 Corinthians 5:19
“God is his own interpreter.”
—Dr. Robert Smith Jr on John 1:18
“I’m not for socializing the gospel. I’m for gospelizing the social.”
–Dr. Robert Smith Jr
“In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?”
–Psalm 56:10-11
“In God’s mind, Christ was crucified before Adam failed. Calvary is Plan A.”
Dr. Robert Smith Jr
“You have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before you in the light of life.”
–Psalm 56:13
“It is the political equivalent of the Somme: Great damage has been done, but barely any ground gained.”
“Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.”
–Psalms 100:3
“The basic point is this: I, like many young evangelicals, don’t need more worldliness. I need less.”
Christianity Today:
Christians have long had an uneasy relationship with culture. We like art, music, food, and movies, but possess an internal sensor that starts beeping wildly if we start liking these cultural goods too much. In the last hundred years, many believers have ricocheted back and forth between these poles — between, as Brett McCracken puts it, “legalism and liberty.”
“Father, thank you that the Gospel can change anyone”
—prayer of Timothy Keller at Movement Day
“Only 1% of Christians share their faith. We choose to see the 99% upside potential of that stat”
—Dan Smith at Movement Day
“We must serve our communities. And we must verbalize the Gospel as we serve”
—Luis Palau
“Whenever you liberate oppressed people someone loses money”
–Timothy Keller on Acts 16
“But in my heart I know that my vindicator lives, and that he will rise last to speak in court”
–John Wesley paraphrasing Job 19:25ff