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“...a deep and even paranoid suspicion continues to disparage higher criticism of the Bible, as if someone could publish a paper that would unravel God. (p. 151)”

God Bible Higher Criticism

Book:Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

Source: Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

“Indeed, a quick glance around this broken world makes it painfully obvious that we don't need more arguments on behalf of God; we need more people who live as if they are in covenant with Unconditional Love, which is our best definition of God. (p. 21)”

Love Faith Theology Unconditional Love Apologetics

Book:Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

Source: Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

“...the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be "protected" from collapsing. (p. 21)”

Science Faith Scholarship Biblical Scholarship

Book:Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

Source: Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

“If the church is to survive as a place where head and heart are equal partners in faith, then we will need to commit ourselves once again not to the worship of Christ, but to the imitation of Jesus. His invitation was not to believe, but to follow. (p. 145)”

Faith Jesus Christ The Church

Book:Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

Source: Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

“Faith is always supposed to make it harder, not easier, to ignore the plight of our sisters and brothers. (p. 165)”

Book:Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

Source: Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

“Anti-intellectualism remains strongly entrenched in many parts of the church, but it is grounded in fear, not in faith. (p. 19)”

Faith Anti Intellectualismlism

Book:Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

Source: Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

“In the beginning, the call of God was not propositional. It was experiential. (p. 10)”

Book:Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

Source: Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

“It is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to Genesis 1 and study together. Liberals can be just as intolerant as fundamentalists, and we have arrived at a moment in human history when intolerance and hope are mutually exclusive. (p. 6)”

Intolerance Conservatives Liberals

Book:Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

Source: Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus