Weakness Is the Way Quotes

“and ongoing embrace of his incarnate Son as perfectly righteous, to be honored accordingly, embraces us with him, for his sake, by virtue of what he has done for us. This, then, is the divinely devised method of our reconciliation, as Paul sets it forth.     THE MESSENGERS OF RECONCILIATION Paul speaks repeatedly of the messengers of this reconciliation. Observe the following statements: God . . . gave us the ministry of reconciliation . . . entrusting”
― J.I. Packer, Weakness Is the Way: Life with Christ Our Strength

“as signs of inadequacy and weakness, they look on wealth as a source of stability and strength. Our proud hearts shrink from weakness, real or fancied, in all its forms, as we have already noted, and they embrace whatever looks like strength, including the goal and the reality of affluence. The”
― J.I. Packer, Weakness Is the Way: Life with Christ Our Strength

“But for Paul it is really the collection that is crucial all the way, from the letter’s first sentence to its last.”
― J.I. Packer, Weakness Is the Way: Life with Christ Our Strength

“The new state of friendship with God, now available to all the world, Jew and Gentile together, rests on Christ’s acceptance of incarnation in the womb and propitiation on the cross, followed by his resurrection from the dead, plus vocation by the Holy Spirit in the individual sinner’s head and heart, and justification of him or her as the decisive word issuing from the holy Judge.”
― J.I. Packer, Weakness Is the Way: Life with Christ Our Strength

“the way of true spiritual strength, leading to real fruitfulness in Christian life and service, is the humble, self-distrustful way of consciously recognized weakness in spiritual things. This”
― J.I. Packer, Weakness Is the Way: Life with Christ Our Strength