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More Quotes by N.T. Wright
Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.
You become like what you worship
You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.
God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.
The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.
It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.
What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.
Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved
True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.
The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
