11.07.2012

And What is Our Center?

Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City
I started this one recently, and it's pretty good.

"Francis Schaeffer argued rightly that Christians' relationships with each other constitute the criterion the world uses to judge whether their message is truthful - so Christian community is the 'final apologetic.'" (31)

"It is not the quality of the faith itself that saves us; it is what Jesus has done for us. It is easy to assume that being 'saved by faith' means that God will now love us because of the depth of our repentance and faith.... It is not the amount of our faith but the object of our faith that saves us." (36)

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