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“If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jesus at all.”
― The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
― The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
“When a newspaper posed the question, “What’s Wrong with the World?” the Catholic thinker G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: “Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely Yours, G. K. Chesterton.” That is the attitude of someone who has grasped the message of Jesus.”
― The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
― The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
“You can avoid Jesus as Savior by keeping all the moral laws. If you do that, then you have “rights.” God owes you answered prayers, and a good life, and a ticket to heaven when you die. You don’t need a Savior who pardons you by free grace, for you are your own Savior.”
― The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
― The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
“If a group believes God favors them because of their particularly true doctrine, ways of worship, and ethical behavior, their attitude toward those without these things can be hostile.”
― The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
― The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
“Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, our churches today do not have this effect. The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not attracted to contemporary churches, even our most avant-garde ones. We tend to draw conservative, buttoned-down, moralistic people. The licentious and liberated or the broken and marginal avoid church. That can only mean one thing. If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.”
― The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
― The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
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