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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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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
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Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.
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We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
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At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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Jesus' response to suffering people and to nobodies provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.
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God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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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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Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply, Be good. Jesus' stories contradict that answer. All we must do is cry, Help!
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When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
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The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'
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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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What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.
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Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
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