158 quotes found
“The miracle centered gospel leads to getting something from nothing.”
“The worlds myths do not reveal a way to interpret the Gospels, but exactly the reverse: the Gospels reveal to us the way to interpret myth.”
“The resistance to the mimetic contagion prevents the myth from taking shape. The conclusion in the light of the Gospels is inescapable: myths are the voice of communities that unanimously surrender...”
“If the Gospels were mythical themselves, they could not provide the knowledge that demythologizes mythology.”
“Miracle focus messages compels masses to think that the process of production is not necessary for prosperity”
“If we were left to ourselves with the task of taking the gospel to the world, we would immediately begin planning innovative strategies and plotting elaborate schemes. We would organize conventions...”
“My work with teenagers has convinced me that one of the main reasons teenagers are not excited by the gospel is that they do not think they need it. Many parents have successfully raised self-right...”
“To make it quite practical I have a very simple test. After I have explained the way of Christ to somebody I say Now, are you ready to say that you are a Christian? And they hesitate. And then I sa...”
“The Law saith, Where is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction? The Gospel saith, Christ is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction.”
“There is nothing better - nothing - than knowing that the risen Christ lives right now in heaven, singing over his people - singing over me - with love. ”
“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...”
“It's only when we understand [Jesus'] presence in the church as being the fulfillment of God's promise in Zephaniah 3:17 to "quiet you with his love" and "rejoice over you with singing" that a cruc...”
“Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. The gospel is the life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than a diamond. It's depths man will never exh...”
“If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of Gods sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.”
“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...”
“If the gospel is old news to you, it will be dull news to everyone else.”
“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...”
