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" Keswick (pronounced KEZ-ick, silent w) is a place, not a person (though if it were, his first name would definitely be Alfred). A market town of Cumbria in England, Keswick became home to numerous meetings begun by an Anglican and a Quaker, influenced by various Wesleyan, Pentecostal, and revivalist-type strands in the church. Keswick theology promoted the potential for breakthrough in the Christian life: an instant experience of sanctification that would take serious believers to the next level in their discipleship. Early Keswick conventions were organized around the process to this breakthrough, during which believers were said to confront a spiritual crisis, activate an experience of consecration, and then receive the Spirit’s filling. "
― Jared C. Wilson , The Gospel According to Satan: Eight Lies about God that Sound Like the Truth
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" Theologian Michael Vlach has done an admirable job chronicling the appearances of penal substitution in the writings of the fathers,9 citing Clement of Rome, Ignatius, the Epistle of Barnabas, the Epistle to Diognetus, Justin Martyr, Eusebius of Caesarea, Eusebius of Emesa, Hilary of Poitiers, Athanasius, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, Ambrose of Milan, John Chrysostom, Cyril of Alexandria, Gregory the Great, Severus of Antioch, Oecumenius, and of course Augustine of Hippo. Vlach’s significant documentation spans the first ten centuries of the orthodox church. "
― Jared C. Wilson , The Gospel According to Satan: Eight Lies about God that Sound Like the Truth
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" I want to share with you some other words from my friend Ray. I hope they will be as big an encouragement to you as they are to me. This is our ultimate accountability. Let’s get ready. Let’s live with purpose. Let’s live in repentance. Let’s be aware, moment by moment, that right now counts forever. What we think, what we say, what we feel, what we do and don’t do—we matter. We matter to Christ. We will matter forever. And very soon we will “report in.” This is solemnizing. This is dignifying. It is also encouraging. What if, as you stand there before Christ your Judge on that great and final day, surrounded by all the redeemed, each one awaiting his or her moment before the Lord—what if, standing there before him, he asks, “Everyone, I want to know who among you appreciated this person’s ministry? Who would like to bear witness to how he helped you for my sake?” And no one says anything. Total silence. Awkward silence. Everyone is embarrassed. Everyone is thinking, Would somebody please say something? You are standing there wondering, So my entire life comes down to this? What a failure I am! But then one voice does break that terrible silence. The Lord himself stands and says, “Well, I appreciated his ministry!” It’s an improbable scenario. But putting it like that does isolate the most urgent question of all. Is the approval of Jesus enough for you and for me? Do we love him enough, do we revere him enough, that his judgment is the one we’re living for? We care what others think. We want to please them (1 Cor. 10:33). But only one opinion will count finally and forever.5 And if I could add one more thing to what Ray has said here, it would be this: The devil has a file on us, to be sure. But the Lord’s got one too (Rev. 21:27). "
― Jared C. Wilson , The Gospel According to Satan: Eight Lies about God that Sound Like the Truth
