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“Jesus didn’t offer the woman a restatement of the Mosaic moral law, he offered himself. She needed first and foremost a hero and Savior, the Messiah, not moral lessons on the sanctity of marriage.”
― John W. Frye, Jesus the Pastor: Leading Others in the Character and Power of Christ

“I used to be encouraged when, after a Sunday’s message, people would say, “John, that was a good message. You showed me things from that verse that I never would have seen. I don’t know how you do it. Thanks so much.” Howard Hendricks called this postservice time “the glorification of the worm.”
― John W. Frye, Jesus the Pastor: Leading Others in the Character and Power of Christ