The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus Quotes

“Jesus did not come to give the disciples the perfect update to the religious operating system or to install an invincible antivirus program; the kingdom of God brings an entirely new operating system.”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic, Or Awesome?: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“I assume that if God is anything like Jesus, then living in fear is a waste of time.”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic, Or Awesome?: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“Since I believe God was being revealed in Jesus, the simple fact that he took sides with the poor and oppressed of his day means that I can’t ignore it, and as a disciple I have to try and do the same today. That’s”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic, Or Awesome?: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“I couldn’t imagine a Christian theology that treated all intellectual challenges as opponents to be demolished prior to theologizing.”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic, Or Awesome?: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“Figuring out what the idols are in our world is the easy part. The hard part has been coming to grips with my own love for other gods and the comfort and security my devotion to them brings.”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic, Or Awesome?: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“Jesus does more than prove the existence of God to the intellectual and cultured skeptics; he shows what God is actually like, and he opposes all impostors.”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic, Or Awesome?: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“Sobrino portrays the ministry of Jesus not only as the proclamation of God’s reign, but also as the prophetic unmasking of the antikingdom. In Jesus’ encounters with oppression, he insists that the people’s needs trump ceremonial perfection. To love God is to practice goodwill toward the oppressed. God cannot be used to justify any form or structure of oppression. Thus, to encounter Jesus is to unmask the antikingdom and its structures of sin.”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic, Or Awesome?: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“While Jesus does not provide a simple definition of the kingdom, it was for him a life-determining reality within which God was present.”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic, Or Awesome?: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“The resurrection is more than just a statement about Jesus—it is a promise from God. This promise insists that the cross-bearer and the kin-dom he proclaimed will be God’s final word to the cross-building powers of this world.”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic, Or Awesome?: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

“To love and pray for your enemies is actually something much more radical: destroying the label of enemy altogether.”
― Tripp Fuller, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic, Or Awesome?: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?