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Owen Strachan QUOTES

1 " Too often, we think that godliness means careening around without any real direction, shooting off like a space shuttle with a deficient navigating system. Our lives follow whatever paths the Lord desires, but let’s remember that godliness is closely related to routine, commitment, hard work, and tireless pursuit. The Bible, as we will see, teaches us to invest our lives in certain core institutions and areas. Many of us have missed this; we will profit from recovering this idea. "

― Owen Strachan

2 " Pastors are appointed by God to help their people see that the church walks in the light and all others in darkness. We, the “in Christ” people, are the true culture (John 14:6). We say this without arrogance, but with a sense of surprise. "

― Owen Strachan

3 " Whatever response we draw, we’ve got to know this: evangelism is not easy. It’s not supposed to be. It’s challenging to tell someone that he or she is lost, in danger of coming judgment, and in need of wholehearted repentance. That’s not a light and airy message. It’s a world-changing message, one that calls our entire lives into question. It’s a loving message, but love in a biblical sense is not mushy or weak. Biblical love is transformative, powerful, renewing, redeeming, cleansing. "

― Owen Strachan , Risky Gospel: Abandon Fear and Build Something Awesome

4 " Jesus came to embolden us, not to anesthetize us. "

― Owen Strachan , Risky Gospel: Abandon Fear and Build Something Awesome

5 " You follow God, and you just might get asked to walk in the wilderness. For forty years. "

― Owen Strachan , Risky Gospel: Abandon Fear and Build Something Awesome

6 " Yet wokeness, as with all ideologies, does not start with the wonder of image-bearing. It starts with the dull stereotypes of Marxist collectivism. It breaks people down by how they look and where they’re from. It robs the human person of dignity, uniqueness, and a sense of lingering enchantment even in a world ruined by the Fall. It does not teach that we are all bound by the common bond of image-bearing, but rather that we live in fundamental alienation from one another. "

― Owen Strachan , Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It

7 " It is true, though, that all beings have a common origin of existence: God’s speech. We are right to teach creation ex nihilo, “from nothing,” but we must also teach of creation in verbo, “by word. "

― Owen Strachan , Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It

8 " Men still build walls of partition and division like the terrible Berlin wall, or erect invisible curtains of iron or bamboo, or construct barriers of race, colour, caste, tribe or class. Divisiveness is a constant characteristic of every community without Christ. "

― Owen Strachan , Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It

9 " In this system, there is no grace and no love. There is only grievance, resentment, and condemnation. Shackelford revealed as much in her next comments: “I believe all white people are born into not being human.” She saved her toughest words for last: white people, she said, grow up “to be demons. "

― Owen Strachan , Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It

10 " In Christ, we learn here, every exclusionary boundary marker falls. This is because the most significant wall dividing humanity has toppled—the covenant wall between Jew and Gentile. If this can fall, so can every other barrier between peoples of every kind. "

― Owen Strachan , Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It

11 " The doctrine of human image-bearing means that we must never despise a person for their skin color, background, traits, abilities (or lack thereof), or heritage. Instead, we must treat all people with honor and dignity. Even human sinfulness (see our next section) does nothing—and I mean nothing—to change this truth. "

― Owen Strachan , Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It

12 " J. Gresham Machen wrote: [W]hat the liberal theologian has retained after abandoning to the enemy one Christian doctrine after another is not Christianity at all, but a religion which is so entirely different from Christianity as to belong in a distinct category. "

― Owen Strachan , Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It

13 " We understand why Cone and the previous voices gain audiences. They often put their finger on a real problem in our past or present, only to both diagnose and address that problem unbiblically. "

― Owen Strachan , Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It

14 " Leaving societal matters for a moment, we ultimately know why our culture is fractured. In the simplest biblical terms, “white” skin is not our core problem. Sin is. In the biblical mind, sin does not affect and inhabit one group more than others. One group is not thus more guilty than any other group in foundational terms. We are all equally guilty in Adam, for sin is the universal problem of the human race. But not generic sin—actual sin. Sin committed by individual people—people of every tribe, tongue, nation, and background. People who have a great education or no education. People raised in a Christian home or an atheistic one. People from the left or the right. People from privilege or no privilege (socially speaking). "

― Owen Strachan , Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It

15 " Nonetheless, if we relinquish the law, demonize law enforcement, and defund the police, we descend into anarchy. We create an unstable society. We wrong many who would then live without justice and who would be preyed upon by evildoers. "

― Owen Strachan , Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It

16 " We do not dismiss passion over the past, then. But we cannot be ruled by it, nor by anger, as Christians. We cannot fall prey to the view that our contemporary society has failed to change in meaningful ways over the centuries. We cannot hold people guilty for the sins of past generations (more on this to come). We cannot read people in a certain light because of their skin color. We cannot automatically equate our culture’s pursuit of justice with biblical justice. "

― Owen Strachan , Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It

17 " We have little fire for an otherworldly lifestyle, because we have little connection to the other world. "

― Owen Strachan , The Essential Edwards Collection: Set of Five Books

18 " Man talks much about justice, but he knows not of what he speaks. In this passage and others, justice is not a means of redistributing privilege (per the narratives of the underprivileged). Biblical justice is retributive in nature, recompensing people for their deeds. "

― Owen Strachan , Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It

19 " He concluded the point with an explosive distinction: “The chief modern rival of Christianity is ‘liberalism,’” not secularist thought, for “Christianity is founded upon the Bible,” while liberalism “is founded upon the shifting emotions of sinful men. "

― Owen Strachan , Awakening the Evangelical Mind: An Intellectual History of the Neo-Evangelical Movement

20 " You can never think too much of God, too much of Jesus, and too much of heaven. "

― Owen Strachan , Always in God's Hands: Day by Day in the Company of Jonathan Edwards