Good Faith Quotes

“Too many Christians have substituted comfortable living for a life changed by the gospel.”
― David Kinnaman, Good Faith: Being a Christian When Society Thinks You're Irrelevant and Extreme

“May we be the kind of good faith Christians who shape the future by asking the right questions and then confronting what is wrong, clarifying what is confused, celebrating what is good, and creating what the world is missing.”
― David Kinnaman, Good Faith: Being a Christian When Society Thinks You're Irrelevant and Extreme

“Today’s questions surrounding sex and sexuality can be a gift. When the biblical sexual ethic calls our sisters and brothers attracted to the same sex to deny themselves, they model how the wider church already ought to be living.”
― David Kinnaman, Good Faith: Being a Christian When Society Thinks You're Irrelevant and Extreme

“marriage isn’t about you. If you are meant to be married, God will use it to change you.” In Christian lingo, we call this “sanctification”—the process God uses to make us more holy, more like Christ. As I explained to Jay, “Sure, marriage may be fulfilling, but more than that it’s a significant way God trains us in unconditional love and service. God uses marriage to help you become the person he wants you to be. “After eighteen years in a marriage,” I went on, “I’ve learned it is a lot like a mirror, reflecting back to me who I really am—whether or not I like what I see. The mirror doesn’t lie and neither does my marriage.”
― David Kinnaman, Good Faith: Being a Christian When Society Thinks You're Irrelevant and Extreme

“Good faith doesn’t mean memorizing a script but cultivating a quiet dependence on the God of the universe to meet you in the difficult conversations he brings your way.”
― David Kinnaman, Good Faith: Being a Christian When Society Thinks You're Irrelevant and Extreme

“Tim Keller says that Revelation 21 and 22 make it clear that “the ultimate purpose of redemption is not to escape the material world, but to renew it. God’s purpose is not only saving individuals, but also inaugurating a new world based on justice, peace, and love, not power, strife and selfishness.”
― David Kinnaman, Good Faith: Being a Christian When Society Thinks You're Irrelevant and Extreme

“Faith has implications for all of life, not just for the hour or two a week when like-minded believers gather to worship and pray.”
― David Kinnaman, Good Faith: Being a Christian When Society Thinks You're Irrelevant and Extreme

“We must be the people of God who, rather than being defined only by what we are against, are also defined by what we are for”
― David Kinnaman, Good Faith: Being a Christian When Society Thinks You're Irrelevant and Extreme