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“All cultures need the Gospel”
“Christ is the end of ‘righteousness by law’ for anyone who believes”
–Romans 10:4
“Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.”
– 1 Peter 2:16
“Sayers on work”
What is the Christian understanding of work?…[It] is that work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker’s faculties… the medium in which he offers himself to God.
“In the world you will experience suffering. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
–John 16:33
“The greatest single secret of evangelistic or missionary effectiveness is the willingness to suffer and die”
–John Stott (John 12, 2 Corinthians 4, Colossians 1
“Gospel fruit (addressing felt needs) should not be confused with gospel root — the substitutionary death of Christ.”
—Tom Steffen
“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
“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