The Old Covenant is filled with examples like this where God desires to pull His people closer and His people continually pull back because of fear, and sin, and pride.
“We are mad if we imagine that the God of love revealed in Jesus will bless us in waging war.”
― A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace
― A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace
“Fundamentalism is to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art.”
― Water To Wine: Some of My Story
― Water To Wine: Some of My Story
“Jesus said his disciples would be known for their love, not for their placards of protest and angry letters to the editor.”
― Radical Forgiveness: God's Call to Unconditional Love
― Radical Forgiveness: God's Call to Unconditional Love
“It’s not the task of the church to change the world by legislative force. It’s the task of the church to be the world changed by Christ. This is revolutionary in a way that conventional politics never can be.”
― Water To Wine: Some of My Story
― Water To Wine: Some of My Story
“Salvation is a restoration project, not an evacuation project! Or as Thomas Merton put it, “Eschatology is not an invitation to escape into a private heaven: it is a call to transfigure the evil and stricken world.”
― A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace
― A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace
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