“I give away wheelchairs to people who need them because they're expensive and not everybody can afford one. So I figured why not raise funds to buy the chairs and improve people's ability to get around.” PeopleNeedsGivingAbilityRaisesExpensiveChairsFundWhy NotWheelchairs Author:Mohammed Saeed Harib
“Wheelchairs can have a huge impact on keeping people safe, because many who use them cannot move independently. They have mobility restrictions and they're on the floor relying on someone to pick them up. So, when they're in their wheelchairs, they feel a lot safer and more independant.” PeopleFeelsUseMovingHugeSafePicksImpactRestrictionMobilityWheelchairs Author:Mohammed Saeed Harib
“The biblical writers assumed many things about reality that modern, Western people do not assume because we've been conditioned by our cultures to assume otherwise.” PeopleRealityCultureModernAssumingWesternBiblical Author:Roger E. Olson
“Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can't fail.” ThinkingFailingVocabularyErase Author:Alicia Keys
“We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of messages and ideas from other cultures that are alien to the worldview of the biblical writers. Therefore, in order fully to understand the Bible and allow the Bible to absorb the world (rather than the world - culture - absorb the Bible) we must practice an "archaeology" of the biblical writers' implicit, assumed view of reality.” WorldIdeasRealityEyeChristianOrderCultureViewsPracticeInfluenceModernMessagesWesternIncludingAliensPlusBiblicalWorldviewThrough The EyesImplicitOther CulturesWestern CultureArchaeology Author:Roger E. Olson
“Today we cannot assume people, even all Christians, understand the Bible's implicit, underlying view of reality. We have to dig it out and show it to people, including Christians, and ask them to "see reality as this" rather than "as that" - where "that" refers to any number of unbiblical ideas about reality.” PeopleIdeasShowsRealityTodayChristianAsksViewsNumbersAssumingIncludingImplicit Author:Roger E. Olson
“"Ultimate reality" is the highest, deepest, eternal, unchangeable, source and ground of everything we see, touch, and experience with our five senses. It's that which gives being and meaning to everything finite, mortal, changeable. It's also that toward which we creatures look and live - whether we know it or not - our telos; our goal and purpose.” KnowsGivingLooksRealityPurposeGoalFiveSourceCreaturesEternalHighestUltimateSensesMortalsFiniteUnchangeableFive SensesUltimate Reality Author:Roger E. Olson
“For Christians ultimate reality is and can only be a personal, sovereign, holy, and loving God. But even some Christians, under extra-biblical and even anti-Christian cultural influences read the Bible as pointing to something not ultimate, such as material wealth, health, happiness, power, etc.” RealityChristianWealthInfluenceMaterialsHolyUltimateExtrasEtcBiblicalSovereignPointingLoving GodAnti ChristianUltimate RealityMaterial Wealth Author:Roger E. Olson
“The Heidelberg Catechism rightly says, for all Christians who allow the Bible to absorb the world for them - who see reality through the biblical story - that the purpose of life is to glorify God - a personal being who is ultimate over us and everything else - and enjoy him forever. This should be clear to all Christians, but many Christians have been influenced to think otherwise even about the Bible because of dabbling in movements such as the New Age Movement or the Gospel of Health and Wealth or even naturalistic humanism.” ThinkingWorldShouldHas BeensStoriesRealityAgeChristianLife IsPurposeEnjoyWealthForeverClearMovementUltimateHumanismPurpose Of LifeBiblicalNew AgeGlorifyCatechismDabbling Author:Roger E. Olson
“The biblical writers didn't need to say everything; they could assume some things. They didn't anticipate a day when even Jews and Christians would fall under influences of non-biblical religions, philosophies, and worldviews, to the extent that is now the case in our pluralistic culture and society.” NeedsPhilosophyChristianFallCultureCasesInfluenceAssumingJewBiblicalAnticipateWorldviewPhilosophy Of Religion Author:Roger E. Olson