"If there is anything in life that we should be passionate about, it's the gospel. And I don't mean passionate only about sharing it with others. I mean passionate in thinking about it, dwelling on it, rejoicing in it, allowing it to color the way we look at the world. Only one thing can be of first importance to each of us. And only the gospel ought to be." - C.J. Mahanney, The Cross Centered Life, pages 20-21
"'What people don’t realise is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.' -- Flannery O'Connor" HT: The Gospel-Driven Church
“How can we break our heart’s fixation on doing ’some great thing’ in order to heal ourselves of our sense of inadequacy, in order to give our lives meaning? Only when we see what Jesus, our great Suffering Servant, has done for us will we finally understand why God’s salvation does not require us to do ’some great thing.’ We don’t have to do it, because Jesus has. . . . Jesus did it all for us, and he loves us — that is how we know our existence is justified. When we believe in what he accomplished for us with our minds, and when we are moved by what he did for us in our hearts, it begins to kill off the addiction, the need for success at all costs.”
- Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods (New York, NY: Dutton, 2009), 93-94. HT: Of First Importance
Real Christianity is never simply an addition to, or merely a cultivation of, something that has always been there. Instead, it is, in some radical sense, an about-face. And it's an about-face all Christians make, but only as a part of their relying on Christ's finished work on the cross." -Mark Dever, The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, page 42
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Gospel Quote Saturday
Let's have a Gospel quotes Saturday:
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so many of us take what Jesus did for us for granted. We as a nation has never had to pay a price for their beliefs. In our arrogance we expect to have covered with the cushy life because we go to church.
ReplyDeleteColleen,
ReplyDeleteMaybe in this present age (2020) the vast majority take their faith for granted.They also take their Christianity for granted, A birthright, a guarentee.
But in the early days of our providence here in Maryland it wasn't always so. The colony of Virginia had an official religion which was anglican. It's colonists were expected to be in church on sunday, and to pray from the official Book of Prayers.
Those that didn't would face Banishment.
Maryland was officially Catholic, but they wanted their colony peopled and invited the quaker (who weren't the people of peace that they are today.)They also accepted people of the Jewish faith as well as Protestants.
I know that my ancesters were Christians, they left accounts of their faith behind. - FAY