Quotes from Timothy Lane

It begins in the hearts of people and has ripple effects that spread to the farthest reaches of sin.

When we live out of a sense of who we are in Christ, we live our lives based on all we have been given by Christ. This keeps us from seeking to get those things from the people and situations around us.

What does all this biblical and experiential data tell us? That you cannot talk about human beings made in God's image without talking about relationships. Yet it is often the first thing we overlook. Only when human beings live in community do we fully reflect the likeness

Our sight is dimmed by the tyranny of the urgent, by the siren call of success, by the seductive beauty of physical things, by our inability to admit our own problems, and by the casual relationships within the body of Christ that we mistakenly call fellowship.

Real change does not take place until it is visible in our lives and our relationships.

Be humble, gentle, patient, and forbearing in love

I loved my family, but that night in the car I hit the wall of the reality of relationships in a fallen world.

Maintain the unity of the Spirit

Blowing up at people when our agendas are trampled

Repentance and faith must be your daily lifestyle. Why? Because it lays you low and lifts you up at the same time.

Notice how much Israel's response to hardship maps onto ours. We face hard things and we complain about things as mundane as a menu. Before long, our complaining becomes an assessment of blame. Then the blaming goes vertical as it questions God's wisdom and goodness. We, too, are in the wilderness of a fallen world. We have not yet entered the Promised Land of eternity, so we face hardships like Israel did.

So that the body of Christ may be built up