Quotes by Michael S. Horton

“Jesus was not revolutionary because he said we should love God and each other. Moses said that first. So did Buddha, Confucius, and countless other religious leaders we've never heard of. Madonna, ...”

“The gospel of submission, commitment, decision, and victorious living is not good news about what God has achieved but a demand to save ourselves with Gods help. Besides the fact that Scripture nev...”

“When the focus becomes What would Jesus do? instead of What has Jesus done? the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.”

“Faith is tested throughout our lives (James 1:3; I Peter 1:7). As the object of our faith proves Himself faithful throughout these trials, our faith grows. Even if we do not have Gods personal reve...”

“American Christianity is a story of perpetual upheavals in churches and individual lives. Starting with the extraordinary conversion experience, our lives are motivated by a constant expectation fo...”

“The real problem is that our values are changing and the new ones are wearing us out. But they're also keeping us from forming genuine, long-term, and meaningful commitments that actually contribut...”

“We want big results-sooner rather than later. And we've forgotten that God showers his extraordinary gifts through ordinary means of grace, loves us through ordinary fellow image bearers, and sends...”

“If we fail to recognize there is a unified whole to Scripture, we will have only a pile of pieces. Simplistic slogans, formulas and catchphrases will not suffice in conveying the richness of the Sc...”

“Gods downward descent to us in grace reversed by our upward ascent in pragmatic enthusiasm, we are increasingly becoming a sheep without a Shepherdand all in the name of mission. Instead of churchi...”

“I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.”

“Whether you realize it or not, you are a theologian. You come to a book like this with a working theology, an existing understanding of God. Whether you are an agnostic or a fundamentalist or some...”

“Monastic spirituality concentrated on private disciplines, as if detaching oneself from "the world" (i.e. society) might make one holier. Anabaptist piety was similar in that regard. However, Calvi...”

“If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.”

“The gospel is unintelligible to most people today, especially in the West, because their own particular stories are remote from the story of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation that is nar...”

“In American religion, as in ancient Gnosticism, there is almost no sense of Gods difference from usin other words, his majesty, sovereignty, self-existence, and holiness. God is my buddy, my inmost...”

“If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to this fading evil age, we have not yet understood the radical condition for which Christ is s...”

“The greatest threat to Christ-centered witness even in churches that formally affirm sound teaching is what British evangelical David Gibson calls the assumed gospel. The idea is that the gospel is...”

“Regardless of the official theology held on paper, moralistic preaching (the bane of conservatives and liberals alike) assumes that we are not really helpless sinners who need to be rescued but dec...”

“Secularizationthat is, the gradual conformity of our thinking, beliefs, commitments, and practices to the pattern of this fading ageis not just something that happens to the church; it is something...”

“God did not become flesh and suffer an ignominious death at our hands so that we could have sprawling church campuses, programs, and budgets.”