Justification has so dominated the landscape of Christian thought that adoption has been marginalized. We don't hear much about our adoption at all. We hear a lot about forgiveness, but very little about the staggering reality of our inclusion in Jesus' relationship with his Father in the Spirit.
The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.
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Criss Jami
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
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Don DeLillo
Surely the earth can be savedby all the peoplewho insiston love.
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Alice Walker
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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Ayn Rand
There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.
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Kirk Cameron
More Quotes By C. Baxter Kruger
The Christian God is interested in relationship with us, and not just relationship, but union, and not just union, but such a union that everything He is and has–all glory and fullness, all joy and beauty and unbridled life–is to be shared with us and...
It was not the Fall of Adam, therefore, that set God’s agenda; it was the decision to share the great dance with us through Jesus. Adam’s plunge certainly threatened God’s dreams for us, but that threat had been anticipated and already strategically overcome in the...
Justification has so dominated the landscape of Christian thought that adoption has been marginalized. We don't hear much about our adoption at all. We hear a lot about forgiveness, but very little about the staggering reality of our inclusion in Jesus' relationship with his Father...
