Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age Quotes

“Author Joe Rigney has traced the movement in this term, empathy, and he suggests that while empathy certainly has a place in our lives, we all tend to use the term selectively.17 We empathize with perceived victims only. (Who, for example, wants to empathize with a murderer or rapist?) Selective empathy is one of the key contributors to tribalism and polarization. To Rigney, empathy is dangerous because if the highest form of love is standing in someone else’s shoes, no one is left standing in a place of objective truth. If someone is drowning in a river, jumping in with him may break up his loneliness, but having two drowned people produces an even greater problem. Sympathy allows someone to stand on the shore, on the solid ground of objective truth where real help might be found.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

“When the church sets itself up to follow the world and not to lead it, it necessarily lingers long with discarded trends and affections.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

“The gospel message hurts our pride in life-giving ways, and for that I praise God.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

“Theology doesn’t save us. We are saved only by the electing love of the Father and the mercy of the Son, so there are true believers who affiliate with gay Christianity to their own harm. But one thing is clear. False religions operate through the diligence of false teachers, whose master, Satan, never sleeps. If Satan is always awake, it is dangerous for the Christian at any time to be spiritually asleep, secure and careless. . . . The saint’s sleeping time is Satan’s tempting time.22”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

“How sad indeed for someone who is already weighed down by sin to be denied the true remedy for the problem. That is what gay Christianity does. It denies the sexual sinner repentance and immerses her in the futile task of trying to domesticate her sin. Trying to deal with sin in your own flesh is what Pharisees always encourage. Jesus speaks to this: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves” (Matt. 23:15).”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

“The fact of the matter is that sinners need to change their behaviors, attitudes, and affections, and change starts with repentance for sin. Only God can make dead bones live, so sanctification must find its root in justification—the reality of being a born-again Christian. In repentance and new life in Christ, we grow in holiness. We never become holy in the sight of God because we are victims who blame him and the church for our sin.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

“Christ Jesus set himself wholly apart for believers. We may say, “Lord, condemnation was yours, that justification might be mine; agony was yours, and victory mine; pain was yours, and ease is mine; agony was yours, and victory mine; the curse was yours and the blessing mine; a crown of thorns was yours, and eternal life mine!”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

“There is a war raging between good and evil in our world, and though we might prefer the conflict to be fought somewhere else, we don’t get to pick the times in which we live. The front lines today are battles over sex, gender, and identity. We must be ready for a fight in precisely these places. Don’t underestimate the power of your opponent. The devil wants us to join him in his rebellion against God. He wants to make us cowards and traitors. He wants us to believe the myth of our own autonomy. He wants us to raise the white flag and side with the enemy—the enemy without or the enemy within, it doesn’t matter to him.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

“Godly confrontation might seem naïve and overly simple, but that is because sin makes everything more complicated than it is. Sin creates more work for everybody.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

“The most dangerous and insidious misconception is from those who believe sin is only a matter of practice, not also internal desire.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

“Bible verses that call for a wife to obey her husband in the Lord, such as Titus 2:4–5, 1 Peter 3:1, 5–6, and Colossians 3:18, are “contextualized” and then dismissed.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

“Distinctions and hierarchies”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age