For too long, weโve called unbelievers to โinvite Jesus into your life.โ Jesus doesnโt want to be in your life. Your life is a wreck. Jesus calls you into his life. And his life isnโt boring or purposeless or static. Itโs wild and exhilarating and unpredictable.
Russell D. MooreThe assumption that the larger culture agrees with Christians on values issues led to evangelicals' minimizing the theologically distinctive aspects of Christian witness. It also set up evangelicals to be disappointed when the culture did not turn out the way many expected it to turn out. So our response ought to be that we are always, in every culture, strangers in exile.
Russell D. MooreThe world of nominal, cultural Christianity that took the American dream and added Jesus to it in order to say, 'you can have everything you ever wanted and Heaven too,' is soon to be gone. Good riddance.
Russell D. MooreThe church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.
Russell D. MooreI believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history.
Russell D. MooreWhen we adoptโand when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communitiesโweโre picturing something thatโs true about our God. We, like Jesus, see what our Father is doing and do likewise (John 5:19). And what our Father is doing, it turns out, is fighting for orphans, making them sons and daughters.
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