The Sacred Overlap Quotes

“I’ve been a Christian for over three-and-a-half decades, and, truth be told, I still need others to evangelize me. I need to be told again and again about the saving message of Jesus, about my hopeless state before Christ and my hope-filled present and future with him. I need to be caught up again in the wonder of grace and the breathtaking vision of redemption and rescue. I need to be enamored again by the gospel—the good news, which is so good, I couldn’t make up such a story on my own if I tried.”
― J.R. Briggs, The Sacred Overlap: Learning to Live Faithfully in the Space Between

“It’s easy to trip and fall into a false dichotomy, believing that evangelism only occurs before conversion and discipleship only happens after it. It sounds all fine and good on the surface, but there’s one problem: we don’t see much evidence of that in the Gospels. It seems Jesus was discipling those who didn’t yet believe and also evangelizing those who already did.”
― J.R. Briggs, The Sacred Overlap: Learning to Live Faithfully in the Space Between

“Most Christians are either too Christian or too pagan. The Christians who are too Christian are very comfortable within the Christian subculture and are ill at ease when in the world. On the other hand, Christians who are too pagan are at ease with the world but fail to integrate their faith into their everyday life. Taking Jesus into our world requires fully engaging both our faith and the world, yet few of us have learned to live a fully integrated life of faith and the world. Paradoxically, in my experience those who wholeheartedly embark on this path will end up seeming both too Christian for their pagan friends and too pagan for their Christian friends.”
― J.R. Briggs, The Sacred Overlap: Learning to Live Faithfully in the Space Between