Scripture: Titus 2:1-10
“How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those whose entire mental training has conditioned them to believe that the real world is the world which can be satisfactorily explained and managed without the hypothesis of God? I know of only one clue to the answering of that question, only one real hermeneutic of the gospel: a congregation which believes it.”
Lesslie Newbigin
“There is a way of telling the gospel that makes people say, ‘I don’t believe it’s true, but I wish it were.’ You have to get to the beauty of it, and then go back to the reasons for it. Only then, when you show that it takes more faith to doubt it than to believe it; when the things you see out there in the world are better explained by the Christian account of things than the secular account of things; and when they experience a community in which they actually do see Christianity embodied, in healthy Christian lives and solid Christian community, that many will believe.”
Tim Keller
“Listen to the Voice who calls you beloved, otherwise you will run around begging for affirmation and praise from everyone else.”
Henri Nouwen
“He hath a daily beauty in his life that makes me ugly.”
Iago, from Shakespeare’s Othello
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