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The church is no longer her own. They do not own themselves. They have been set free from the curse of thinking that everything ... can be treated as their own property. For they don't belong to themselves; they belong to Christ, and because they belong to him they also belong to one another... belonging to one another is not a ... regret; it doesn't mean giving up life but finding life by being dispossesed. - p. 132

One of the primary jobs of Scripture is to make sure that the life of the church is open to judgment... That's why reading the Bible isn't a tame business: these texts that we read when we meet to worship ... aren't the domestic chit-chat of Christianity. They're part of the great struggle of which ... Christian congregations are part -- namely, the struggle between God and sin, between truth and untruth. - P. 91

Pilate said to him: "What is truth?" What are we to make of Pilate's reply as he turns away from Jesus to return to his accusers? Skepticism? Perplexity? And we are a cynicism of the hard pressed man of affairs? All of these - but above all, evasion, an attempt to slip away from the terrible directness of Jesus' testimony, to hide from the fact that unlike all others, Jesus hasn't made his peace with falsehood. P. 71

We will understand very little of the Christian Gospel unless we understand this: election is a way of talking about God's pity for us ... God's election is his utter determination that we will flourish, his steadfast and tender mercy that holds us fast. It's the authority with which he takes from us our evil capacity to undo ourselves, and sets us under the conclusion of his love. - p. 50

"We get in the way of God's work in us; we are deaf to what he says and blind to what he shows; we lack eagerness, love, and desire. In and of ourselves we can do nothing to change the situation; in the things of God, we're as weak as kittens. But God is not weak. He will undertake for us and that is why we pray to God's Spirit he will do for us what we cannot do for ourselves ... and make us alive." P. 25

"What are we to do in response to the miracle of God's saving love? In a very real sense, we're to do nothing. We do nothing because there is in one sense nothing to do. God has done it all for us. We don't need to try to make salvation happen by moral effort or the liturgical performance or having wretched thoughts about our sins. That God loves us and has saved us is as sure as the fact that the sky is blue." P. 4