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Justification means to be made right with God, or righteous in God’s sight (like Phinehas and Abraham). As I said at the end of the last chapter, to follow this Jesus into hypostasis through kenosis leads to a transformation that can be called theosis, sharing in the being of God. But how does this transformation work with justification?
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
The red thread that is both the center of and the impetus to testify to Paul’s story is the experience of the ministerial being of Jesus. The plot and purpose of the story is to reveal the divine hypostasis encountering our own hypostasis.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
In Acts 1:8 Jesus gave us a pattern for involvement: “You will tell everyone about me in Jerusalem, in all Judea, in Samaria, and everywhere in the world.”17 His followers were to reach out to their community (Jerusalem), to their country (Judea), to other cultures (Samaria), and to other nations (everywhere in the world). Note that our commission
... See moreRick Warren • The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
Yet what’s fascinating is that Henry upped the ante. He called for a change in the conception of the pastor. Henry claimed that the pastor is to witness to this divine
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
And Gregory of Nazianzus, in the fourth century, had enunciated the principle by which Christological reflection had therefore to be governed: what had not been assumed had not been healed – which is to say, if any part of our humanity was absent from Christ, then that part of our humanity had never been saved.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
The older guys have a wisdom that is born not of desperation but of an acceptance of their status and an unwillingness to continue to con themselves. There is a point in one’s self-realized poverty where humility and truth make their entry. Power and its little brothers, honor and reputation, are the agenda of the young. This agenda blinds them and
... See moreGary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
The life and words that Jesus brought into the world came in the form of information and reality.
Dallas Willard • The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
for Augustine the journey inward was an open battle with devils and demons. Augustine’s pastoral practice gave us an inner self, but this self, to use Taylor’s language, was porous.