Hey all,
I just had to read a couple of articles for class, and there was some really good stuff in there. Here's a couple of quotes (hopefully they make some sense outside of thir context...:
"The Kingdom we seek is not something we create, but is rather a reality we discern when the Spirit of God gives us eyes to see." -Bill Burrows
"We do not get Jesus from our beliefs, we get our beliefs from Jesus." -E. Stanley Jones
"I challenge anyone, anywhere to expose his inner life to Jesus Christ in repentance and faith and obedience and ... such a person will be changed, profoundly changed, in character and life and he will know it in every fiber of his being." -E. Stanley Jones
At the end of his 45 year ministry, E. Stanley Jones writes:
"You don't know the worth of your Christian faith until you have compared it with others and subjected it to life....I've put my faith out before the non-Christian world and have said: 'There it is ... if you can break it, break it. For I cannot live in a paradise if it turns out to be a fool's paradise' ....So the keenest minds and the most philosophical of the world have smitten upon my faith, night and day for over half a century. Result? Broken? There are many scars on my faith but underneath those scars there are no doubts. The song I sing is a life-song. Not the temporary exuberance of youth that often fades when middle and old age set in with their disillusionments and cynicism. No, I'm eight-three and more excited today about being a Christian than I was at eighteen when I put my feet upon the Way....Now by seasoned, tested, corroborated experience I know that this is not a way, but the Way."
Wow.
justin
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