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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.'

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.
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If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
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Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.
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... we need to reclaim the goodnewness of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.
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In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.
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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.
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Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
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Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.
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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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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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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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Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.
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