The Gospel-Driven Life Quotes

“We often assume that the question, “How can I be happy?” can be successfully answered without reference to the love of God and our neighbors. And the irony is that if our biggest question is our own happiness, we can never know the God in whom we find our ultimate joy and rest.”
― Michael S. Horton, The Gospel-Driven Life: Being Good News People in a Bad News World

“It is ironic that we have more technology to make our lives more efficient, ostensibly reducing our workload, and we work harder than we ever have. I was dragged into email kicking and screaming. On most issues technological I’m wrong, but I think I had this one nailed. Given the way emails come like baseballs from a machine in a batting cage, I spend more time responding to them than I spent manually opening and responding to letters. My friends from England write beautiful letters: bonded correspondence paper, elegant penmanship, and prose that reads like poetry. I shoot back an email. To the equivalent of a well-prepared feast I reciprocate with the equivalent of a bag of chips.”
― Michael S. Horton, The Gospel-Driven Life: Being Good News People in a Bad News World

“We are not telling them to transform their lives or to adopt a self-help program. We are not even holding up our own experience as the big news that should move them to accept Christ. They should not believe what we are reporting simply because they see that it puts a smile on our face or a spring in our step. We are just announcing the headline: “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 8:1).”
― Michael S. Horton, The Gospel-Driven Life: Being Good News People in a Bad News World