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“So many times I think to myself that if Christians ever learned to live the kind of life Peter described, we would turn the world upside down (Acts 17:6). But sometimes the world can’t distinguish us from itself.”
― MacArthur Jr., John, Found: God's Will

“In fact, I’ve met countless believers who have said, “The church is an organism, not an organization.” Yet as they formed those very words, they continued to be devout members of churches that were organized along the lines of General Motors and Microsoft.”
― Frank Viola, Reimagining Church: Pursuing the Dream of Organic Christianity

“But this book is not a theology of kingdom, nor an exposition of the kingdom passages in the Bible. No, it is simply a meditation on what Jesus meant when he called us to “seek first his kingdom.” What does it really look like to expand everything our lives contain to touch the size of his kingdom?”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.”
― Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“sin sneaks up on us over time.”
― Timothy S. Lane, How People Change

“When our lives are frantic and frenzied, we are more prone to anxiety, resentment, impatience, and irritability.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

“We have to schedule time to be unscheduled.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

“Commit yourself to the serious reading of books, and your life will be enlightened.”
― Anonymous

“Who do people say the Son of Man is? ...But what about you? Who do you say I am?' (Mt 16:13,15). In the end, people's answer to this question will be the only thing that matters; it alone will determine people's eternal destiny.”
― Andreas J. Kostenberger, Encountering John: The Gospel in Historical, Literary, and Theological Perspective

“It should be understood that it was not necessary for God to redeem men. The purpose to redeem is of the free and sovereign exercise of His love.”
― John Murray, The Atonement

“It has often been stated, therefore, that the Cross of Christ, insofar as it contemplated reconciliation, did not terminate upon God to the removal of His alienation from us but simply and solely upon us to the removal of our alienation from Him. In other words, it is not that which God has against us that is dealt with in the reconciliation but only our enmity against Him.”
― John Murray, The Atonement

“Sacrifice views the atonement from the perspective of guilt, propitiation from that of wrath, reconciliation from that of alienation. Redemption has in view the bondage to which sin has consigned us, and it views the work of Christ not simply as deliverance from bondage but in terms of ransom.”
― John Murray, The Atonement

“we reduce discipleship to a canned program, and so many in the church end up sidelined in a spectator mentality that delegates disciple making to pastors and professionals, ministers and missionaries. But this is not the way it’s supposed to be.”
― Francis Chan, Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples

“I need to be able to come to God differently than my father does. I need to be able to express faith differently without being corrected or dismissed. I need to be free to have doubts, to speak them without recrimination, and to not know answers”
― Anonymous

“Think about it: How would you function over the next twenty-four hours if you already had everything you needed? How would your choices, reactions, behavior, and language be different if you knew beyond a doubt that there was nothing on this earth that you needed that you didn’t already have? We would be able to create without the need to compare, give without the need to get, and serve without the need for status.”
― Tim Chaddick, Better: How Jesus Satisfies the Search for Meaning