Final Witness Quotes

“God is offering us a contract. He says that if certain terms are accepted, he will provide a certain result. Guaranteed. The main item to be accepted is Jesus." Ashby took a drink of his margarita and shrugged. "Now," Rachel continued, "anyone who does not accept Jesus is making a counter offer to God, changing the terms of God's contract. So is there an agreement? No. Not unless God accepts those changes." "Will he?" Ashby asked. "I don't know. No one does. Every Christian, including me, is acting as an agent for God. An agent cannot change the material terms of the contract. If someone wants to make a counter offer, there is no way I can say he has reached an agreement with God. But I can say that if you meet God's terms, you definitely will have an agreement. And that leaves the ball strictly in your court.”
― James Scott Bell, Final Witness

“The feeling was that just when things seemed all right, something bad was about to happen.”
― James Scott Bell, Final Witness

“He was preaching about expectations, that new Christians sometimes had the expectation that life with Christ was going to be smooth and happy and without obstacle from now on. That there would be no major problems, no confrontation with evil, no valley of the shadow ever again. Not so, he said, not so. There would be tribulation in the world. That was certain. But the other certainty was that Jesus has overcome the world.”
― James Scott Bell, Final Witness

“I think the way I'd put it is that life tests us. Christianity doesn't promise a life without trouble. But it does promise that when trouble comes, we have one who is there to help us." "Has that turned out to be true, for you ?" "Yes. God helped me through a very dark time when my little brother died.”
― James Scott Bell, Final Witness

“To be quite honest with you, I haven't known many Christians as articulate as you.”
― James Scott Bell, Final Witness