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We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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I never see God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible the encounter. For this reason, Christianity has always insisted that trust and obedience come first, and knowledge follows.
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As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his eternal appetite by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual walk with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.
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I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.
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We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the real world and the unseen world as the unreal world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.
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The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.
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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.
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In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square
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Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.
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Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
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The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.
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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. But Jesus' stories imply that far more may be going on out there: beyond that stadium scene, in a place concealed from all camera lenses, a great party has erupted, a gigantic celebration in the unseen world.
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And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.
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[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
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The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
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We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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