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It isn’t enough just to agree with the idea, in the abstract, that Jesus is, in some sense or other, God. (People often say to me, ‘Is Jesus God?’, as though we knew who ‘God’ was ahead of time, and could simply fit Jesus in to that picture.) God, as we have already seen in Revelation, is the creator, who is intimately involved with his world, and
... See moreN. T. Wright • Revelation for Everyone (New Testament for Everyone)
The sensed irrelevance of what God is doing to what makes up our lives is the foundational flaw in the existence of multitudes of professing Christians today. They have been led to believe that God, for some unfathomable reason, just thinks it appropriate to transfer credit from Christ’s merit account to ours, and to wipe out our sin debt, upon ins
... See moreDallas Willard • The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
Shift from self-centered thinking to other-centered thinking. The Bible says, “My friends, stop thinking like children. Think like mature people.”
Rick Warren • The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
For reflection: Numbers 29:1–40 If you devoted every moment of your whole life exclusively to His service you could not give Him anything that was not in a sense His own already. —from Mere Christianity
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
But I do know that if a church only, or mainly, relies on the NIV it will, quite simply, never understand what Paul was talking about.
N. T. Wright • Justification
5:21 forms the climax of a three-chapter build-up of sustained exposition of the nature of apostleship as the embodiment of the gospel, the gospel of God's faithfulness in the Messiah, and also the climax of a thrice-repeated sequence of just such a double statement about the Messiah's death on the one hand and the apostolic ministry on the other.