Quotes About Christianity

It's how my ma raised me, after all, to live in JOY: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.

Each confrontation between Jesus and another person or group reveals what we do to each other, personally and on a public level. Each is an indictment against Christians, followers of the man crucified, the suffering servant, the Lamb of God.

If you wish to know God, you should not only be like the Son, but you should be the Son himself.

The English Bible has often been called a preacher's Bible. Written to be spoken, written to spread the word in the language of the land, a cause for which Wycliffe and Tyndale and hundreds of other English Christians had lived and died.

Many Christians have put the political cart before the theological horse.

Christianity challenged Rome's most basic set of values. The peculiar, mysterious religion forced a distinction - between what it meant to be a Roman and what it meant to be a Christian. The church fathers were quite aware that they were Roman citizens, but they also understood that their faith in Christ transcended the political and social values of their day.

One is reminded of the origins of Christianity and the process whereby Pauline thought, originally a schism or heretical deviation from Jesus' own teachings, supplanted those teachings and became the new orthodoxy — while Nazarean thought, the original repository of the teachings, was labelled a form of heresy.

the Hiéron du Val d'Or was simultaneously Christian and "trans-Christian.

In September 1959, Graham was about to begin a crusade in Little Rock. ... 'A lot of business people in Little Rock were worried about some sort of great encounter," Clinton recalled later, 'because racial tensions were very high. And they asked Billy Graham to agree to give this crusade to a segregated audience. And he said if they insisted on that he would not come, that they were all children of God, he wanted to lead everyone to Christ. He would not do it.

And, in a larger sense, Graham was soon vindicated. Within just a few months, he received invitations to preach in the nations that were then known as Czechoslovakia and East Germany - trips that would turn out to be genuine crusades in countries desperate for Christian ministry. It had not been easy to watch, but Graham had wedged his foot in the door. And he would help kick it wide open over the next few years. p. 275

We learn what it means to be human from Scripture's opening act of creation and what it means to be Christian from its closing act of redemption. If redemption restores creation, then the point of being a Christian is to restore our humanity.

DIVIDE YOUR LIFE INTO SACRED AND SECULAR, HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY, CHRISTIAN AND HUMAN REALMS. DEVOTE THEM ALL TO CHRIST.

Our Christian and human lives are united because redemption restores creation.

We are the new and improved Christians, those who actually understand Christianity. It has nothing to do with worshipping the Son of God, and everything to do with becoming God. Christianity is about making yourself Christ.

Love is the most attractive quality in the world. And it lies at the heart of Christianity.

Christianity is not a religion at all, but a revelation and a rescue and an ensuing relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

The Acts has so much to say to our half-hearted and cold-blooded Christianity in the western world. It rebukes our preoccupation with buildings and ministerial pedigree, our syncretism and pluralism, our lack of expectancy and vibrant faith. As such it is a book supremely relevant for our time.

in this book I want to address a question that I think is commonly in the minds of Christian people when they read the Acts of the Apostles: what can we learn from these people who turned the world upside down in so short a space of time?

for Paul private belief and public confession of it - including baptism - go hand in hand.3 Both are needed for salvation.

Sadly, most of this civil religion's practitioners belong to Christian churches, which is precisely why Revelation is addressed to the seven churches (not to Babylon), to all Christians tempted by the civil cult.

1. Recognize that the central and centering image of Revelation is the Lamb that was slaughtered.

2. Remember that Revelation was first of all written by a first-century Christian for first-century Christians using first-century literary devices and images.

That Revelation 2–3 contains an outline of church history seems rather forced and quite far-fetched. But the idea that these seven churches somehow symbolize the range of possible Christian churches—particularly the range of common dangers the churches face—is much more plausible.

by "responsible" I mean theologically responsible, which entails paying attention to the book's original historical and literary contexts, its relationship to the rest of Scripture, its relationship to Christian doctrine and practice, and its potential to help or harm people in their life of faith.