More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Read between
April 11 - April 22, 2019
Ultimately, the awesome responsibility and glorious privilege of image-bearing is expressed in simple acts of obedience that have eternal implications. Imaging God is loving him and loving your neighbor. In the same way that God’s holy love and justice are manifested in concrete acts, so should ours be.
the adoption, no matter how much it makes us feel good, was not intended primarily for that purpose. In the New Testament, adoptions brought glory to the person who adopts, not the one who is adopted. Adoption brings glory to God.
The image of God in us is not about psychological need; it is about the abundance of gifts that God has given his people.
Imaging God could not be done alone; it is done in partnership. His glory is too immense to be clearly reflected in any one creature.
Image-bearers are not Lone Rangers.
your own sins, no matter how big, are not bigger than God’s pleasure in forgiveness.
Any beauty in the bride is a reflection of the greater beauty of the bridegroom.
The blessing of being more like Jesus is greater than the hardship of the refining fire.
Our goal is to love people more than need them. We are overflowing pitchers, not leaky cups.
Loving others makes life less comfortable. It means that I give up my own agenda for a Saturday morning in order to help a neighbor. It means that I get hurt more when someone moves away. It means that people stay at our house when I would prefer to be surrounded with just my immediate family.
“What happens to the sinful creatures of God, however tragic, is less monstrous than what happened to the Son of God.”
It is much easier to talk about Jesus when his life consistently leaves us in awe.
to fulfill the command to pray without ceasing, I need the church because I need to sleep every now and then, and I have to go to work. Round-the-clock praying can only be done by the worldwide church.
Biblical love is never satisfied unless it is growing
C. S. Lewis indicated that if he wanted something easy and pain-free, he would have chosen a bottle of wine over Jesus.
People-pleasers can mistake “niceness” for love.
Love is certainly not the easy way out.
we are to love people more and need people (to satisfy our psychological cravings) less.
if we pursue community for self-fulfillment rather than God’s glory, the community movement will simply be a passing fad.
When we recognize that people come to God in the shape of desperately needy sinners in need of grace, all counselors should seek to deluge the counselee with the love of Christ. If you are the counselor, this should be your greatest joy: to pour and pour God’s love over those who are spiritually parched. This, after all, will bring great glory to the name of Christ.
