We want to jump up and down, clap our hands, and sing that Jesus is Lord.” My question to such groups is: “What does it mean that Jesus is Lord? What practical consequences does that have for the problems of this world?”

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THREEs must confront the secret of the cross, which is the secret of failure: out of our defeats God makes his victories—not ours!

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There are two utterly different forms of religion: one believes that God will love me if I change; the other believes that God loves me so that I can change!

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It is the things that you cannot do anything about and the things that you cannot do anything with that do something with you.

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Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

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Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.

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Paul writes: “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit” (2 Cor. 3: 17–18).

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