Adventures in Evangelical Civility Quotes

“our civility is grounded in a genuine conviction that we have much to do by way of preparing for the city that is to come. Practicing a calm and steady humility is not merely a way of biding our time until the end-time arrives. It is itself a crucial way of anticipating the final chapter of the narrative, an important preparation for the eschaton. Indeed,”
― Richard J. Mouw, Adventures in Evangelical Civility: A Lifelong Quest for Common Ground

“there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is sovereign over all, does not cry ‘Mine!”
― Richard J. Mouw, Adventures in Evangelical Civility: A Lifelong Quest for Common Ground

“since our fallenness has limited, perhaps even obliterated, our cognitive access to any divine ordinances that might have been discernible in the original creation, our only option is to create communities that follow the way of Jesus as set forth in the Sermon on the Mount and as displayed in his own radical willingness to take up the cross. In this kind of ethic, the only available revealed guidance for living the good life is to be found in our moral exemplar, Jesus of Nazareth. In becoming his disciples, and by immersing ourselves in the practices of Christian community, we can cultivate the virtues that he displayed in his earthly ministry. And”
― Richard J. Mouw, Adventures in Evangelical Civility: A Lifelong Quest for Common Ground

“Our calling is to imitate Jesus in his willingness to suffer rather than to follow the ways of the powers.”
― Richard J. Mouw, Adventures in Evangelical Civility: A Lifelong Quest for Common Ground