Quotes for today

from THE BARBARIAN WAY by Erwin McManus

Our redemption will only comeif we find the courage to escape the prison we have created for ourselves (p. 17)

Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing his name. (17)

The closer you walk to Christ, the greater the faith required. (53)

God's intent was never to domesticate us, but to liberate us (64)

You are a jungle where the Spirit roams wild and free in your life. You are the recipient of the God who cannot be tamed, and of the faith that MUST not be tamed (66)

People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist (69).

While Jesus can make you wonderfully healthy, he has no ambition to make you normal. (70)

You can put a suit on me, but underneath there will always be a savage (77)

Our goal must NOT be to populate the Christian religion but to bring people into a genuine relationship with God (91)

Domesticated Christians are far to willing to abdicate the battle for the soul of the world. (108)

We build churches that are nothing more than hiding places for the faithful while pretending that our actions are for the good of the world. (109)

Every citizen of the kingdom of God is brought into the heat of the battle between good and evil.
(124)

When we are born again we are not dropped into a maternity ward, but a war zone. (126)