Quote of the Week
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Jan 18, 2021: Shaped by the Story
Classical Christianity was shaped in a pagan and relativistic society much like our own. Classical Christianity was not an accommodation to paganism but an alternative practice of life. Christians . . . will succeed, not by watering down the faith, but by being a countercultural community that invites people to be shaped by the story of Israel and Jesus.
-Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 7. -
Jan 11, 2021: Ancient-Future Faith
The road to the future runs through the past.
-Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999), 7. -
Jan 4, 2021: Epiphany Spirituality
Even as our Christmas spirituality was shaped by the dominant theme of the incarnation, so now our Epiphany spiritually will be shaped by the overriding theme of Christ’s manifestation as Savior of the world. Even as the incarnation finds its continuation in us through our union with Christ, so the Epiphany of Christ is extended in us through the practice of Epiphany spirituality. . . . I [am] called . . . to be a manifestation of Christ.
-Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2004), 76-77, 79. -
Dec 28, 2020: Restoring Creation
At the heart of Christmas spirituality is the mystery that God of very God became man of very man to destroy the power of evil and to restore creature and creation to God’s intention for the world. Christmas as the fulfillment of our Advent expectation teaches that the work of restoring creation has begun.
-Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2004), 61. -
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