Shaped by the Gospel Quotes

“Richard Lovelace was a student of the history of revivals. He sought to discover what, for all their apparent differences, they had in common. He concluded that while Christians know intellectually that their justification (acceptance by God) is the basis for their sanctification (their actual moral behavior), in their actual “day-today existence . . . they rely on their sanctification for their justification . . . drawing their assurance of acceptance with God from their sincerity, their past experience of conversion, their recent religious performance or the relative infrequency of their conscious, willful disobedience.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City

“move people from what they think is their defining identity (in their culture and time) to their identity in the body of Christ.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City

“Everyone has to live for something, and if that something is not God, then we are driven by that thing we live for — by overwork to achieve it, by inordinate fear if it is threatened, deep anger if it is being blocked, and inconsolable despair if it is lost”
― Timothy J. Keller, Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City

“When everything is about the gospel, it’s easy to forget the gospel itself, the uniqueness of the message.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City

“the gospel is something to be proclaimed, not something for us to do or complete”
― Timothy J. Keller, Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City

“the gospel is so accessible that anyone can wade in it and so profound that one can swim in its depths without ever touching the bottom.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City