“Insulated Western Christianity is waking from the dreamworld that being a Christian is normal or safe. More and more, true Christianity is becoming what it was at the beginning: foolish and dangerous…In other words, the center of Christianity and the center of pastoral life is a dishonorable, foolish, gruesome, and utterly glorious reality of the tortured God-Man, Jesus Christ. More and more, He must become the issue. Not a vague, comfortable, pleasant Jesus that everybody likes but the one who is a ‘stumbling block’ to Jews and ‘foolishness’ to Gentiles. The closer you get to what makes Christianity ghastly, the closer you get to what makes it glorious.” -John Piper
True Christianity: foolish + dangerous - Unsafe Challenge said...
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07/13/09 10:39 AM | Comment Link
Carl Adams, Jr. said...
2I LOVE John Piper! I’ve been listening to his sermons on iTunes (and older ones on his site) for the last year or so…he and Mark Driscoll are my two favorite pastors to listen to audio sermons by…!
07/13/09 5:25 PM | Comment Link
Dan Marotta said...
3So true and so important. “He must become the issue”
07/14/09 11:56 AM | Comment Link