Quotes about Redemption

Remember, your relationships have not been designed by God as vehicles for human happiness, but as instruments of redemption.

Conflict with others is one of God's mysterious, counterintuitive ways of rescuing us from ourselves. God uses it to get us where he wants to take us before we die. Because we don't usually think that trials can be used in such a positive way, this truth catches us by surprise. But it shouldn't.

Christ brings the assets. We bring the liabilities. Yet Christ still joins himself to us!

We all want the wrong things, but God is in the business of changing what we want.

He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." That good work begins in relationship to Jesus and is brought to completion within an ever-deepening union with him.

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Savior

God's work is driven by an agenda so much grander than simply making our lives better. He wants to remake us into his likeness. And that likeness can be seen in Jesus.

To the degree that you forget you are a sinner, you will underestimate your daily need for Christ and the relationships in his body that are his tools of change.

Father, Son, and Spirit were torn apart so that we might be united with them and with each other.

I want all of our talk to be redemptively constructive, from the most mundane details to the huge life decisions.

God is not working for our comfort and ease; he is working on our growth. At the very moment we are tempted to question his faithfulness, he is fulfilling his redemptive promises to us. After all, it's not like there are only some people who really need to change. Change is the norm for everyone, and God is always at work to complete this process in us.

we all must remember that our relationships have been designed as workrooms for redemption, not shelters for human happiness.