The Breadth of Salvation Quotes

“We respond to God’s saving grace by once more wanting to be like God rather than accepting our gracious status as creatures of the Creator. We invert all that God has done for us in Christ, and - rather than realizing he left the glories of heaven to become human for our salvation - we try not to be conformed to his likeness as a human but to ignore our creaturehood and to focus on heaven alone. We want to be like God. To save us from this, Jesus becomes human. We need to learn the salvific grace of becoming human, becoming creatures, once more - not try to escape to another (heavenly) realm (39).”
― Tom Greggs, The Breadth of Salvation: Rediscovering the Fullness of God's Saving Work

“When we move past the scandalizing, seemingly senseless aspects of the story to an explanation or interpretation or model, we miss the breadth of salvation’s power.”
― Tom Greggs, The Breadth of Salvation: Rediscovering the Fullness of God's Saving Work