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.
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.
All new news is old news happening to new people
None of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to put ourselves on the same plane as God — acting as if we had no needs, as if we were not creatures, not dependent on Him.
Premature as the question may be, it is hardly possible not to wonder whether we will find any answer to our deepest questions, any signs of the workings of an interested God, in a final theory. I think that we will not.
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