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The acceleration of technology creates a wake that pulls us all into it.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
What is the gospel?
Dallas Willard • The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited
If we take seriously the public persona of Jesus as a prophet, the material we think of as ‘moral teaching’, which has been categorized as such by a church that has made Jesus into the teacher of timeless dogma and ethics, must instead be thought of as his agenda for Israel. This is what the covenant people ought to look like at this momentous poin
... See moreN. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
his being is now in Christ’s being, as Christ is in him, because Paul has died with Christ, and through death Jesus has brought him into a new reality made through the ministerial action of the persons of the triune God (again, Gal. 2:20).6
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Gorman explains further, When Paul describes himself as an imitator of Christ and calls others to be imitators of him and thus of Christ (1 Cor 11:1), he is speaking, not about an option, but about a nonnegotiable mandate in which one does not deny but rather exercises one’s true identity as an apostle (and one’s true apostolic freedom), or, more g
... See moreAndrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
The way to compensate for this unease and remain in the church is to become obsessed with the how, but in a very different way from Jonathan Edwards. Edwards was concerned with how you did your deeds because they revealed if your affections were holy. If your inner life was encountering the divine presence, then it would be clear in how you lived y
... See moreAndrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
Apologetics, then, is an activity of the Christian mind which attempts to show that the gospel message is true in what it affirms.
Josh McDowell • Evidence That Demands a Verdict: Life-Changing Truth for a Skeptical World
This will be a theme of my book: modern theologies of the New Testament were failures from a Christian point of view precisely because what they ended up offering was bad history, bad theology, or both.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
To have faith is to be in Christ; it is to have the faith of Christ because Christ lives in you.