Living at the Crossroads Quotes

“No state can be completely secular in the sense that those who exercise power have no beliefs about what is true and no commitments to what they believe to be right. It is the duty of the church to ask what those beliefs and commitments are and to expose them to the light of the gospel.”
― Michael W. Goheen, Living at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Christian Worldview

“The building up of massive stockpiles of weapons capable of destroying the world is the direct result of modern technological development. And it consumes huge amounts of time, money, and materials. If one year’s worth of global spending on arms were spent on food instead, it could feed the world’s hungry for years.”
― Michael W. Goheen, Living at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Christian Worldview

“It is now estimated that if the whole world were to consume natural resources at the same rate as do North Americans, those resources would last for only about ten or twenty years more.72 Surely, a worldview that would destroy creation if it were lived by all cannot be one that an ethical person should embrace.”
― Michael W. Goheen, Living at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Christian Worldview

“This farmer knows the creaturely nature of the seeds and the land that he deals with, and knows also the best methods of sowing those seeds, of harvesting, and of threshing. But the farmer knows all this by virtue of his experience with God’s orderly creation. God instructs the farmer, says Isaiah, but he does not use Scripture to do so directly; instead, wisdom—God’s instruction—comes as the farmer discerns and conforms”
― Michael W. Goheen, Living at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Christian Worldview