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“The truth of the Gospel is the principle article of all Christian doctrine. . . . Most necessary is it that we know this article well, teach it to others, and beat it into their heads continually.”14
Timothy Keller • The Prodigal God
So Luther says that even after you are converted by the gospel your heart will go back to operating on other principles unless you deliberately, repeatedly set it to gospel-mode.
Timothy Keller • The Prodigal God
Luke Burgis • Everything Is Fast
Bonhoeffer, says Gorman, “recognizes at the end of the day that discipleship is not about imitation or even obedience to an external call or norm. It is about transformation, theosis.” He continues, “What we find in Bonhoeffer is the Eastern Christian tradition of theosis merged with a radical interpretation of discipleship expressed primarily in t
... See moreAndrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
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David F. Wells • God in the Wasteland
“The Church is the Church only when it exists for others” (Bonhoeffer, 1972, 382).
John W. Stewart • Envisioning the Congregation, Practicing the Gospel
Aren’t righteousness and the Kingdom of God on earth the focus of everything, and isn’t it true that Rom. 3.24ff. is not an individualistic doctrine of salvation, but the culmination of the view that God alone is righteous? It is not with the beyond that we are concerned, but with this world as created and preserved, subjected to laws, reconciled,
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