“Missing local church membership is like missing the fact that Christians are called to pursue good works, or love their neighbors, or care for the poor, or pray to God, or follow in the way of Christ.”
― The Church and the Surprising Offense of God's Love: Reintroducing the Doctrines of Church Membership and Discipline
― The Church and the Surprising Offense of God's Love: Reintroducing the Doctrines of Church Membership and Discipline
“But science has given us new eyes that allow us to see down to the deeper roots of the world’s structure, and there all we see is order and symmetry of pristine mathematical purity.”
― Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
― Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
“On the evangelical right are careful thinkers who are absolutely scrupulous in other areas of doctrine but tend to flow with the pragmatic stream in how they lead and structure their churches.”
― The Church and the Surprising Offense of God's Love: Reintroducing the Doctrines of Church Membership and Discipline
― The Church and the Surprising Offense of God's Love: Reintroducing the Doctrines of Church Membership and Discipline
“Parents have plenty of biblical reason to embrace a sure confidence that they can raise their children in such a way that God will save them.”
― Parenting is Not a Coin Toss
― Parenting is Not a Coin Toss
“The argument of this book, quite simply, is that God calls the church to draw boundaries, boundaries which mark off these people from those people, boundaries which prevent some individuals from joining while excluding other individuals after they have joined. Not only that, God intends that the church use these boundary markers in order to help define for the world what exactly love is.”
― The Church and the Surprising Offense of God's Love: Reintroducing the Doctrines of Church Membership and Discipline
― The Church and the Surprising Offense of God's Love: Reintroducing the Doctrines of Church Membership and Discipline
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