Love of Neighbor (117)
  1. There is indeed a responsibility for the church to share the gospel in the world, but never at the expense of the church’s charity and mercy for those neighbors who are nearby.
  2. The Pharisee valued fasting and giving tithes, but could not find value in his fellow sinner.
  3. For many years, I held piety as my god.
  4. Ultimately, Scripture does not confront fear with commands. It confronts fear with a promise.
  5. “If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36).
  6. The wrong god means love remains frail, fickle, or a fiction. The right God means love is the most reliable thing in all the world.
  7. To obtain this righteousness, you have to admit you don’t have it and could never produce it on your own because you are unrighteous.
  8. When joined with a good Reformation theology of vocation and the freedom of a Christian, Fujimura’s vision for culture care is something all Christians can embrace, regardless of whether they are artists in the formal sense.
  9. This is an excerpt from Romans 14 in Romans: A Devotional Commentary by Bo Giertz, translated by Bror Erickson. (1517 Publishing 2018), pgs 79-80.
  10. Moltmann is gone now, but his theology will continue to provoke and provide.
  11. We know we are made for something great. We humans were created in God’s image and restored through Christ in his perfect image.
  12. You are the baptized, for in Christ we are all wet. The demographic dividers are washed away.
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