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The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others QUOTES

The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others QUOTES

1 " The Jesus Creed teaches us that a disciple’s responsibility is to love God by following Jesus. You only follow someone else when your own lights or sense of direction are not good enough. "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

2 " For Mother Teresa, love is only of use if it is seen in action. Her famous words are: “Do ordinary things with extraordinary love: little things like caring for the sick and the homeless, the lonely and the unwanted, washing and cleaning for them.” And, “You must give what will cost you something.” Her creed—call it her Shema—is simple: The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of prayer is faith. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

3 " loving others includes brushing up against the thorns of injustice in society. Love wants them removed. "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

4 " Michael Green cuts through church cant: “God’s church exists not for itself but for the benefit of those who are not yet members. . . . [and] the church which lives for itself will be sure to die by itself.” The church is not a religious club and it does not have a secular mission. Instead, it is a worshipping and sending community. "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

5 " To keep its past as part of its present, God gives to Israel a series of rituals, routines, and rhythms. "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

6 " J. I. Packer, in his potent study of what the Bible teaches about God, develops the subtle distinction between knowledge about God (mind) and knowledge of God personally (mind and heart—as well as soul and strength). If eternity is eternal fellowship with the Father (and not a theology test), then we need to get started right now in knowing this One with whom we will share the table. As Packer says it, “The rule . . . is that we turn each truth that we learn about God into a matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God. "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

7 " These changes reflect the Jesus Creed: Because Jesus loves others (us), he offers himself for us to replace the lamb. Thus, the Lord’s Supper is Passover morphed by the Jesus Creed. The Passover lamb becomes the Lamb of God, and the Lamb of God leaves us a rhythm by which to remember what he has done for us. "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

8 " Jesus sufferes to sympathize with our sufferings. "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

9 " our pain, we are invited to join Jesus so he can share our pain. "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

10 " In the potent words of Dorothy Sayers, our vocation is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker’s faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental, and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God. "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

11 " He experiences for us what we do not want but deserve (slavery and death), and provides for us what we do want but don’t deserve (a life of freedom). "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

12 " Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us (leading us to faith and worship), we have to see it as something done by us (leading us to repentance).” And: “As we face the cross, then, we can say to ourselves both ‘I did it, my sins sent him there’ and ‘he did it, his love took him there. "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

13 " What is not out of the question is that what the world sees as a grotesque image, the cross, has become for Christians a place of grace "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

14 " Let the Church remember this: that every maker and worker is called to serve God in his profession or trade—not outside it. Whatever we are called to “do” is not a “job” but a sacred vocation. "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

15 " Let your life speak. "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

16 " As Tom Wright describes it, Mary’s Song is the “gospel before the gospel” and it “goes with a swing and a clap and a stamp.” Mary’s Song is an expression of gratitude for God morphing her bad reputation into a messianic vocation. But her past is even more than this unfortunate label. "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

17 " as life is a story, so also is spiritual formation a story—a journey from earth to heaven. "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

18 " even Jesus was resurrected with his wounds.” I like that: we, too, are raised to a vocation with the wounds of our past intact, visible, and a witness to what God can do. "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

19 " Hebrew for “poor, humble.” The “pious poor” of Judaism. After the Exile in Babylon (587 BC), a social class of Jews who returned were known as much for their commitment to the Torah* and the temple as for their economic poverty. Their situation led them to trust in God and to pray for him to establish his justice in the Land. Accordingly, this group was one in which hopes for the Messiah flourished "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others

20 " Hear O Israel, the Lord our God. The Lord is One. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these. "

― Scot McKnight , The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others