Quotes about Redemption

Grace comes from outside, as a gift and not an achievement.

6The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7So the LORD said, "I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them." 8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

Somehow we need to reclaim the "goodnewsness" of the gospel

If it's not setting you free and enlarging life, then it's not Jesus' message. If it doesn't sound like good news, it's not the gospel.

The essence of Christian faith has come to us in story form, the story of a God who will go to any lengths to get his family back.

God uses the talent pool available. None lived without sin and embarrassing failures. Yet somehow God used them to advance the cause of the kingdom.

We do not give up on the institution of family because of its imperfections-why give up on the church?

If reduced to a single phrase, the Bible's message would be something like this: God gets his family back. The Bible tells the story of how God, wanting to live in harmony with all that he had made, set out to win a rebellious world back to himself.

God does not seek the people most outwardly capable, nor the most naturally "good." He works with the most unlikely material so that everyone can see the glory is his and his alone.

Moralism apart from grace solves little.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8).

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.