Two famous quotes sum up my thoughts on the Church:
“You cannot have God as your Father if you do not have the church as your mother.” – Cyprian
and
“The church is a whore, but she’s my mother.” – Augustine
… and how this fits perfectly into this verse:
Acts 17:24-25 The God who made the world and everything [...]
or How did Jesus teach, share, engage, serve those of the world?
Per that same conversation with my friend, Ben, in my aforementioned post last Friday, I was challenged with this:
“How would you teach on any given subject: give the information or let the person figure out for themselves?”
My immediate instinct and answer, “Give the information. [...]
Yesterday afternoon, my friend hit me with something that I haven’t stopped wrestling with since. He said:
“When you are the guy with all the right answers, you might come off as haughty.”
I drove off in my car and several minutes later, this is what slammed in my heart:
“When you are the guy with all [...]
This quote says it all and it might be the most shocking quote ever on this blog:
“What we are claiming is that Evangelicalism at its best is nothing more than Biblcally-faithful Christianity at its best.” – D.A. Carson
Shocking statement, I know. Yet I am not known for pitching softballs either.
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ht: The Gospel Coalition