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" In direct response to the idea that we need to just “let go and let God,” the late, great R. C. Sproul said: We’re to be actively engaged, not quietly waiting for God to do it for us, but at the same time not depending on our own powers and our own resources but realizing that this is a synergistic operation—a cooperative enterprise. I’m working. God is working. And He works through means. Those means of grace that He has given to us to help us in our sanctification: prayer, Bible study, worship, fellowship, witnessing, and service. Those are the ordinary means of grace. You know, we’re lazy, and we want sanctification in three easy steps. But, no. The whole process of sanctification is a lifelong enterprise of diligence and of commitment, making use of those means that the Lord has given to us. So, it’s the lazy man’s Christianity who says I’m going to sit back and let God do it for me.9 "
― Jared C. Wilson , The Gospel According to Satan: Eight Lies about God that Sound Like the Truth
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" More and more believers are listening to authors and pastors, mainly in the progressive or even postevangelical Christian tribes, who deny PSA and, like Young, refer to it with the worst language imaginable, saying something like, “To believe in PSA is to be a worshiper of a bloodthirsty god who violates his own laws against child sacrifice in order to commit cosmic abuse and murder against his own son.” Well, is that all? Over the last several years, I have noticed this view gaining more ground in the evangelical marketplace and even among several circles of ministers I once considered likeminded friends. Denying PSA has become common among younger left-leaning Christians, the oft-called progressive evangelicals who listen to voices like Brian Zahnd, Pete Enns, or Richard Rohr. "
― Jared C. Wilson , The Gospel According to Satan: Eight Lies about God that Sound Like the Truth
