The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth. N. T. Wright More Quotes by N. T. Wright More Quotes From N. T. Wright Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are. N. T. Wright christmas light rooms When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience. N. T. Wright gratitude thanksgiving christian The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it. N. T. Wright easter world jesus The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about N. T. Wright extras essence christian When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal. N. T. Wright meals giving jesus We can glimpse it in the book of Acts: the method of the kingdom will match the message of the kingdom. The kingdom…goes out into the world vulnerable, suffering, praising, praying, misunderstood, misjudged, vindicated, celebrating: always – as Paul puts it in one of his letters – bearing in the body the dying of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed. N. T. Wright misunderstood book jesus If you read 1 John you'll see that love of God and neighbour are very closely tied together. Partly this is because all humans are made in God's image, so that when you love another human you are loving someone who is reflecting God himself. Of course there is a distinction but the minute you try to drive a wedge between the two things start to fall apart. N. T. Wright loving-someone two fall Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic. N. T. Wright logic Jesus' death was seen by Jesus himself ... as the ultimate means by which God's kingdom was established. The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God's kingdom would come on earth as in heaven. N. T. Wright prayer mean jesus Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it. N. T. Wright covenant tyrants doe Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig. N. T. Wright insufferable shows trying Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining. N. T. Wright shining sun sky You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. N. T. Wright death-penalty abortion pro-life There's all the difference in the world between humbly saying "I want to find more light from Scripture than we have yet had" and saying "I'm going to prove the rest of the Church wrong and do something totally new!" N. T. Wright differences church light Art at its best draws attention not only to the way things are but also to the way things will be, when the earth is filled with the knowledge of G-D as the waters cover the sea. That remains a surprising hope, and perhaps it will be the artists who are best at conveying both the hope and the surprise. N. T. Wright sea water art In the New Testament outside the Gospels and the beginning of Acts, again and again, the fact of Jesus’ resurrection is closely linked to our own ultimate resurrection, which isn’t life after death – it’s life after life after death. N. T. Wright resurrection facts jesus Jesus himself, as the gospel story goes on to its dramatic conclusion, lives out the same message of the Sermon on the Mount: he is the light of the world, he is the salt of the earth, he loves his enemies and gives his life for them, he is lifted up on a hill so that the world can see. N. T. Wright light giving jesus While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message. N. T. Wright dog children jesus Whatever life after death is, being with Christ which is far better, being in Paradise like the thief, etc, the many rooms where we go immediately... that is the temporary place. The ultimate life after life after death is the resurrection in God's new world. N. T. Wright etc thieves rooms Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption. N. T. Wright redemption finals christian
