The Jesus Creed Quotes

“The Jesus Creed teaches us that a disciple’s responsibility is to love God by following Jesus. You only follow someone else when your own lights or sense of direction are not good enough.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“For Mother Teresa, love is only of use if it is seen in action. Her famous words are: “Do ordinary things with extraordinary love: little things like caring for the sick and the homeless, the lonely and the unwanted, washing and cleaning for them.” And, “You must give what will cost you something.” Her creed—call it her Shema—is simple: The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of prayer is faith. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace.”
― Scot McKnight, The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“Let the Church remember this: that every maker and worker is called to serve God in his profession or trade—not outside it. Whatever we are called to “do” is not a “job” but a sacred vocation.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“loving others includes brushing up against the thorns of injustice in society. Love wants them removed.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“Yahweh is the sort who sticks with what he is stuck with.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“Zealots: a Jewish movement in the first century AD that focused on the use of violence to restore the Land and establish the kingdom of God.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“tetragrammaton”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“By the first century, Samaritans were the stereotype enemy of Judaism, the embodiment of heretical faith, and the denier of Jerusalem-centered hope and faith. They still exist today at the same location.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“Morality is about a heart that is right before God.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“Purity is not the same as morality but is about who or what is fit for the temple, and so classifications are made.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“Hebrew for “poor, humble.” The “pious poor” of Judaism. After the Exile in Babylon (587 BC), a social class of Jews who returned were known as much for their commitment to the Torah* and the temple as for their economic poverty. Their situation led them to trust in God and to pray for him to establish his justice in the Land. Accordingly, this group was one in which hopes for the Messiah flourished”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“as life is a story, so also is spiritual formation a story—a journey from earth to heaven.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“What is not out of the question is that what the world sees as a grotesque image, the cross, has become for Christians a place of grace”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us (leading us to faith and worship), we have to see it as something done by us (leading us to repentance).” And: “As we face the cross, then, we can say to ourselves both ‘I did it, my sins sent him there’ and ‘he did it, his love took him there.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“He experiences for us what we do not want but deserve (slavery and death), and provides for us what we do want but don’t deserve (a life of freedom).”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“our pain, we are invited to join Jesus so he can share our pain.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“Jesus sufferes to sympathize with our sufferings.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“These changes reflect the Jesus Creed: Because Jesus loves others (us), he offers himself for us to replace the lamb. Thus, the Lord’s Supper is Passover morphed by the Jesus Creed. The Passover lamb becomes the Lamb of God, and the Lamb of God leaves us a rhythm by which to remember what he has done for us.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“To keep its past as part of its present, God gives to Israel a series of rituals, routines, and rhythms.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“subsist”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“Though Son of God and though entitled to provisions, Jesus didn’t let his physical desires dictate decisions.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“aeons.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“No, his repentance parts the water so that our (weak) repentance can stand up in that water.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“level than observing democratic institutions, it is Jesus’ foreignness to sin that permits him to have a perfect conviction of the unique tragedy of our sinfulness. Since Jesus has perfectly clear eyes to see the tragedy of sin, his confession is utterly true.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“foreignness that gave him the ability to see the distinctiveness of America.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“tome”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“Jesus often wetted his finger to find the direction of the acceptable winds, and instead of going with them, headed straight against them.”
― Scot McKnight, The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“The first principle of spiritual formation is this: A spiritually formed person loves God and others.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“even Jesus was resurrected with his wounds.” I like that: we, too, are raised to a vocation with the wounds of our past intact, visible, and a witness to what God can do.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

“As Tom Wright describes it, Mary’s Song is the “gospel before the gospel” and it “goes with a swing and a clap and a stamp.” Mary’s Song is an expression of gratitude for God morphing her bad reputation into a messianic vocation. But her past is even more than this unfortunate label.”
― Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others