Quotes
Condemned by their own reason
“It will be one of the curses of the damned to see that they will be condemned by their own reason with which they claimed to condemn the Christian religion.”
Pascal
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“For God is good”
I haven’t posted since Uganda and I plan to post very soon about what the Lord did there and in me but because of school I haven’t had much time to formulate blog posts.
But I figured I could throw out a quote from something I am reading for homework.
Athanasius’ On the Incarnation of the Word
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The Centrality of Gospel Proclamation Continued
Continuing from yesterday’s quote from Tim Chester and Steve Timmis’ Total Church,
We want to make three assertions about the relationship between evangelism and social action:
1. Evangelism and scoial action are distinct activities.
Good social action is about harnessing the insights and resources of the poor, but the gospel is a message from the outside that is [...]
The Centrality of Gospel Proclamation
So in any Christian ministry, including ministry among the poor, proclaiming and teaching the word of God must be central. And that is because the greatest need of the poor, as for us all, is to be reconciled to God and so escape his wrath. What makes Christian social involvement distinctly Christian is a commitment [...]