Home > Work > The Gospel as Center: Renewing Our Faith and Reforming Our Ministry Practices

The Gospel as Center: Renewing Our Faith and Reforming Our Ministry Practices QUOTES

The Gospel as Center: Renewing Our Faith and Reforming Our Ministry Practices QUOTES

1 " Christians refuse to believe that there are only two options in engaging our culture: either to assimilate or to separate, to capitulate or to evade, to over-contextualize or to under-adapt. Jeremiah 29 encourages God’s people not to accommodate the foreign culture but to move in and get involved in the life of the city economically and culturally. The prophet is asking the people to be spiritually bicultural. They are being called neither to worship "

― D.A. Carson , The Gospel as Center: Renewing Our Faith and Reforming Our Ministry Practices

2 " The tragedy of biblical history, especially during the period of the monarchy, is a picture of the people’s failed attempt to learn how to submit to the rule of God. Instead of surrendering their self-creation, self-promotion, and self-salvation to monolatry, Israelite history shows the enslavement of the human heart to idolatry. "

― D.A. Carson , The Gospel as Center: Renewing Our Faith and Reforming Our Ministry Practices

3 " When we fulfill our vocation, when love-dispensing families fan out across the globe, we subdue the planet by a kind of husbandry that prospers the world and all it contains. By the far-flung migrations of families reflecting the self-giving image of God, creation erupts in a song of impassioned thanksgiving to its Maker. "

― D.A. Carson , The Gospel as Center: Renewing Our Faith and Reforming Our Ministry Practices

4 " People had false expectations of their messianic king, and they did not anticipate the coronation of their king coming through a cross. Whenever we think about this upside-down, paradoxical kingliness of Jesus, who is majestic and meek, holy and humble, we desire the same royalty that creates our hearts to be both lamb-like and lionhearted, and courageous and compassionate at the same time. "

― D.A. Carson , The Gospel as Center: Renewing Our Faith and Reforming Our Ministry Practices

5 " The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God’s story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible. "

― D.A. Carson , The Gospel as Center: Renewing Our Faith and Reforming Our Ministry Practices