#gospel

Tell me everything about this woman you once knew. Tell me everything she ever told you about Jesus of Nazareth." Marcus saw the fever in his eyes. "Why?" he said, frowning. "Why does it matter?" "Just tell me, Marcus Lucianus Valerian. Tell me everything. From the beginning. Let me decide for myself what matters." And so Marcus did as he was asked. He gave in to his deep need to speak of Hadassah. And all the while he talked of her, he failed to see the irony in what he was doing. For as he told the story of a simple Judean slave girl, Marcus Lucianus Valerian, a Roman who didn't believe in anything, proclaimed the gospel of Jesus Christ. ↗

— Francine Rivers

#hadassah #jesus-christ #roman

People aren't confused bythe Gospel. They're confused by us. Jesus is the only way to God, but we are not the only way to Jesus. This world doesn't need my tie, my hoodie, my denomination or my interpretation of the Bible. They just need Jesus. We can be passionate about what we believe, but we can't strap ourselves to the Godspel, because we are slowing it down. Jesus is going to save the world, but maybe the best thing we can do is just get out of the way. ↗

— Casting Crowns

#gospel

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God. ↗

— Kevin DeYoung

#culture #gospel #moralism #gospel

The angel has confided in me that he is going to ask the Lord if he can become Spider-Man. [...] The children need heroes, he says. I think he just wants to swing from buildings in tight red jammies. ↗

— Christopher Moore

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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#first #gospels #narratives #passion #pieces

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#away #both #center #cross #does

I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths. ↗

— R.C. Sproul

#relativism #truth #design

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#forgives #gospel #murder #never #new

Think of someone you know who's not saved but you may be afraid to share the Gospel with that person. I've found a way that's radically effective in training people to share the Gospel. ↗

— Kirk Cameron

#effective #found #gospel #i #know

One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that. ↗

— George Carey

#believe #committed #course #found #gospel