Imperishable Inheritance

“I think the great­est threat to evan­gel­i­cal­ism is that we con­tinue to present a Jesus that is far too human; a Jesus who is made in our image.” — Tim C.

“Amer­ica is not God’s coun­try, nor is God America’s God.” — Bryan P.

“It would do all of us some good to always keep in mind that we are all cre­ated in the image of God and that we are all going through the sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion process. We might have the wrong atti­tude about peo­ple, but there is always hope and room for change.” — John M.

“[A]millennialism is easy to under­stand, I love it and makes me feel all tingly inside.” — David W.

“I love Bib­li­cal The­ol­ogy. And I love it for one rea­son. It helps me know Jesus Christ bet­ter. If you want to know the Christ, if you want your peo­ple to know who He is, what He did, what He’s doing, and what He will do, then become famil­iar with the dis­ci­pline of Bib­li­cal The­ol­ogy.” — Nicholas P.

“For my sal­va­tion and His glory the Lord of the Uni­verse, the Mes­siah and King of Israel gave his life will­ingly as the sac­ri­fi­cial lamb to pay the pun­ish­ment due me for the for­give­ness of my sins. I must only think of the aton­ing death of Jesus the Christ to quickly remem­ber that the cares of this world, the pain, loss, and sor­row, are but pass­ing moments.” — Perry P.

“I think the most basic prac­ti­cal divi­sion among evan­gel­i­cal pas­tors today may be between those who pur­sue faith­ful­ness and assume rel­e­vance and those who pur­sue rel­e­vance and assume faith­ful­ness.” — Mark D.

“A very strong theme which exists through­out the entire Bible is that God does things for the sake of His name, and for the sake of His praise among the peo­ples of the earth. God is the Cre­ator and Beau­ti­ful One.” — Matt M.

“Few exam­ples bet­ter illus­trate the deprav­ity of man more than the inside of a bath­room stall.” — Perry P.

“Peo­ple are always con­cerned about our free will, but I don’t see where we have a choice to accept or deny God. What about God’s will? Is our will stronger?” — David F.

“True wor­ship must be directed to God alone; but fur­ther­more, it must like­wise have its ori­gin in God alone. In order for wor­ship to be gen­uine, it must be sim­ply a response to the Divine ini­tia­tive in reveal­ing his alto­gether worship-deserving nature to men.” — Nathan P.

“There aren’t many things more noble and worth­while than tear­ing down false beliefs that dis­honor Christ, and replac­ing them with real truth and beauty about Christ.” — Aaron S.

“If I ever say to dis­card sys­tem­atic the­ol­ogy please kick me in the face.” — Bobby F.

“[W]ho am i to rely on my bro­ken heart to heal the wounded?” — Aly­sun S.

“Lone­li­ness is the most dif­fi­cult of all emo­tions for a human being to cope with. Even greater than loss. At least with loss you had some­thing.” — Jamie L.

“A man that acts like a man in a Bib­li­cal fash­ion is so much more attrac­tive than one who sits on the side­lines. Get in the game!” — Carla L.

“I have come to real­ize that such knowl­edge of God man­i­fests itself in a person’s life in many ways. A desire for min­istry and spread­ing the gospel to oth­ers, a devo­tion for read­ing and study­ing the Bible and a wil­i­ness to serve God in all aspects of ones life are all out­ward signs of hav­ing a rela­tion­ship with God.” — Perry P.

“[I]f we always under­stood the Bible upon first read and always agreed with every­one else on mean­ing, then there would be far less intel­lec­tual dis­cus­sions con­cern­ing mean­ings, and I think we would grow far less intel­lec­tu­ally and in faith. The­o­log­i­cal dis­agree­ments, at least for me, cause me to study the Bible more intently and look for what is accu­rate.” — Sarah C.

“We have before us a mon­u­men­tal and divinely-appointed mis­sion to take the good news of Christ’s great accom­plish­ment of redemp­tion to the ends of the earth. The Lamb is wor­thy of wor­ship­pers from every kin­dred, tongue, peo­ple and nation.” — Nathan P.

“I don’t know why God used death to teach me these things, but it works. All I know is that God has promised that I will per­se­vere.” — David F.

“And here we see that the emer­gent church is noth­ing new, for it merely harkens back to the con­tin­ual cycle of the church. The Bible is redis­cov­ered and soon left behind. The emer­gent church removes the empha­sis from the Word, por­tray­ing it as too deep and mys­te­ri­ous to under­stand, and empha­siz­ing instead mys­tery and doubt. Does this sound like any­thing we have seen in his­tory?” — Tim C.

“Real faith hon­ors Christ because it looks away from any of our own sup­posed ‘wor­thi­ness’ and looks to the right­eous­ness of Christ. We put our faith in the per­son and promises of Christ. If we have the wrong per­son, we do not have the faith. If we have the wrong promises, we do not have the faith.” — Aaron S.

“To lie, in our cul­ture, is to do what must be done. We are fake. We are plas­tic. We are neatly wrapped and placed in rows.” — Simon F.

“The end and aim of all things must be char­ac­ter­ized by being fur­ther con­formed to the image of Christ, and to bet­ter know God.” — Matt M.

“How can we regard our com­forts
As if were our great­est riches,
Never see­ing for a moment
That our dia­monds are but ditches?” — Gwen R.

“I now desire to re-affirm my vows that I made almost a decade ago.” — Perry P.

“Only marry some­one if you will serve God bet­ter together than apart.” — Jes­sica W.

“[Mat 24:14 is] one of the rea­sons I want to be a mis­sion­ary. Christ comes back sooner and you get to glo­rify him in the process.” — Becky M.

“[Y]ou can’t get all your bib­li­cal truths from one-liner bumper stick­ers and bill­boards.” — Jen­nifer K.