Scot McKnight Quotes
Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life. He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough to surrender one's entire being to him.
The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.
We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.
One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it.
Our biggest problem is that we have an entire culture shaped by a misunderstanding of the gospel. That so-called gospel is deconstructing the church
... the Eucharist profoundly enables the grace of God to be received with all its glories and blessings.
To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason
The ultimate end of redemption is that we worship God with our whole being and in the whole company of the redeemed.
God's love entails a covenant commitment on the part of with us, and that covenant commitment means a promise to be with us and for us, and God's covenant is shaped toward our redemption.
Angels will frequently - even when they're comforting us with good news - touch the awe of God's eternal presence and drive us to our knees before our God of glory.
Angels do not intend to intimidate or scare, but their overwhelming glory and being will stun us into sudden contact with what is far beyond us.