For too long, we’ve called unbelievers to “invite Jesus into your life.” Jesus doesn’t want to be in your life. Your life is a wreck. Jesus calls you into his life. And his life isn’t boring or purposeless or static. It’s wild and exhilarating and unpredictable.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that one's life should be transformed by embracing Jesus' way of life, rather than merely inviting Him into a disorganized life.
Russell D. Moore's quote challenges the common notion of inviting Jesus into one's life, suggesting instead that He offers a vibrant and unpredictable existence. By shifting the perspective to joining Jesus' life, the quote encourages individuals to seek a deeper, purpose-filled journey rather than trying to integrate a spiritual element into a chaotic personal life.
In practice
During a church service, when discussing the importance of spiritual transformation.
Conservative evangelicals don't want government support for our faith, because we believe God created all consciences free and a state-coerced act of worship isn't acceptable to God. Moreover, we believe the gospel isn't in need of state endorsement or assistance. Wall Street may need government bailouts but the Damascus Road never does.
When we adopt—and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communities—we’re picturing something that’s true about our God. We, like Jesus, see what our Father is doing and do likewise (John 5:19). And what our Father is doing, it turns out, is fighting for orphans, making them sons and daughters.
Ultimately, the transgender question is about more than just sex. It's about what it means to be human.
For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but he warns us against the commission of those beings which are esteemed lawful among men....Therefore, with regard to this precept of God, there ought to be no exception at all, but that it is always unlawful to put to death a man, whom God willed to be a sacred animal.
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn’t see any way to change things. Only end them.
But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan's face they just caught a glimpse of the golden mane and the great, royal, solemn, overwhelming eyes; and then they found they couldn't look at him and went all trembly.
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.