Bringing Heaven to Earth Quotes

“When Jesus asked His followers to remember Him in the meal, what if Jesus wasn’t referring to the steps taken in a ritual? What if Jesus was saying instead to organize your gatherings just like this one? Make sure you invite tax collectors, traitors, zealots, rough blue-collar workers, and loudmouths. And seat them all at the same table, indicating to them and everyone else that they are welcomed and cherished by God.”
― Josh Ross, Bringing Heaven to Earth: You Don't Have to Wait for Eternity to Live the Good News

“we become like what we worship. If you find yourself constantly bitter or angry, a good question to ask is, what god am I worshiping?”
― Josh Ross, Bringing Heaven to Earth: You Don't Have to Wait for Eternity to Live the Good News

“God Uses Restored People to Restore People”
― Josh Ross, Bringing Heaven to Earth: You Don't Have to Wait for Eternity to Live the Good News

“We have so mastered our world that we can fool ourselves into thinking we have everything figured out. We believe that if we can define it, categorize it, and make it fit into a bigger scheme or accepted theory, then we can control it. But the biblical idea of creation does not conform to the modern worldview. We can’t just keep improving conditions in the world until there is no more death or suffering. Having the right political positions, achieving another scientific breakthrough, or improving education for all—none of these will fix everything. That is because the problem is buried deep within all of us and in every atom of creation.”
― Josh Ross, Bringing Heaven to Earth: You Don't Have to Wait for Eternity to Live the Good News

“We believe church matters, not because it’s the only place to meet God, but because it’s where we learn to meet God everywhere we find ourselves outside the church.”
― Josh Ross, Bringing Heaven to Earth: You Don't Have to Wait for Eternity to Live the Good News

“Brené Brown the professor of sociology famous for her powerful TED talk on vulnerability, said in an interview that upon her return to church she had assumed that the church would help to numb the pain that comes with life. But she discovered that the church was more like a midwife, one that helped you sit through the pain and bear it.3”
― Josh Ross, Bringing Heaven to Earth: You Don't Have to Wait for Eternity to Live the Good News

“God in human flesh celebrated life among the least of these, until the outcasts and overlooked people on the margins of society started to realize that they mattered too.”
― Josh Ross, Bringing Heaven to Earth: You Don't Have to Wait for Eternity to Live the Good News

“God chooses to be among the people who ordinarily are overlooked. He pays special attention to shepherds and teenagers and fishermen and single moms and small children. Jesus shows special care to lepers, blind persons, those with physical disabilities, crooks, liars, hookers, and worse. That’s who God has decided to be with.”
― Josh Ross, Bringing Heaven to Earth: You Don't Have to Wait for Eternity to Live the Good News

“Jesus gave us a picture of the way the world is going to be one day, so go ahead and start practicing now.”
― Josh Ross, Bringing Heaven to Earth: You Don't Have to Wait for Eternity to Live the Good News

“The gospel is more about this world than the next. It is the story of God’s work in restoring a broken world and broken people.”
― Josh Ross, Bringing Heaven to Earth: You Don't Have to Wait for Eternity to Live the Good News

“God is the ultimate Salvage Artist. He loves to restore, redeem, and renew things that everyone else has written off as irreversibly broken or dead. God loves resurrection.”
― Josh Ross, Bringing Heaven to Earth: You Don't Have to Wait for Eternity to Live the Good News

“Christians have asked this question for far too long: If you were to die tonight, where would you go? We need to start asking, if you wake up tomorrow morning, what will you live for?”
― Josh Ross, Bringing Heaven to Earth: You Don't Have to Wait for Eternity to Live the Good News

“You may be going through a dark season, you may feel isolated and alone, but you are not unnoticed and you are never alone. The heavens are cheering you on. In another realm an unseen group of people is rooting for you to accomplish God’s plans of bringing the heavenlies to earth. Moses and Abraham, grandmothers and departed friends, all the saints who went before you. The great cloud of witnesses cheers you on from heaven. And it isn’t as far away as you might think.”
― Josh Ross, Bringing Heaven to Earth: You Don't Have to Wait for Eternity to Live the Good News

“When we read the Bible, do we see the world as something to retreat from or to run into?”
― Josh Ross, Bringing Heaven to Earth: You Don't Have to Wait for Eternity to Live the Good News