Quote of the Week
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Dec 2, 2019: God Comes In Human Skin
God chooses to restore humanity not by a decree of reconciliation, not by a sentimental forgiveness, not by a soft love, but by entering into union with humanity. In Jesus, God comes in human skin to reverse the human condition and reconcile humanity to the Father. . . . In his humanity as Jesus, God took into himself the rebellion of the first Adam and the consequence of his sin, which was death for us all.
-Robert Webber, Who Gets to Narrate the World? Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 32-33. -
Nov 25, 2019: Practicing the Historic Faith
In the history of the church lies untold treasures of theological thought, devotional literature, and guidelines for nearly every issue that Christians face today. My interest is to help us recapture this history and to be so judged by it and challenged because of it that we will turn from our modernizations to the practice of the historic faith.
-Robert Webber, Common Roots: The Original Call to an Ancient-Future Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2009), 44. -
Nov 18, 2019: Recover the Early Church
The era of the early church (AD 100-500), and particularly the second century, contains insights that [we] need to recover. Obviously, the early church is not perfect. Like other periods of history, the early church needs to be judged by the apostolic norm. But the best insights of the early church, those they struggled to maintain, were, in fact, those convictions they regarded as apostolic. Thus, to recover this era of the church is to restore the earliest expressions of Christian theology and church practice that grew out of apostolic teaching.
-Robert Webber, Common Roots: The Original Call to an Ancient-Future Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2009), 32. -
Nov 11, 2019: Worship Is a Verb
Many people simply like passive worship. They don’t really care to become involved, to break through the mold of being a mere recipient. . . . Renewal in worship will take time and effort on the part of pastor and congregation. But the result of truly worshiping God is well worth it. . . . Let’s break through the passive mold of being observers or recipients. Let’s become active participants and doers. Let’s discover that WORSHIP IS A VERB.
-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Pub., 1996), 217-219. -
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