“The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths.” SelfChristianJoyReligionDiesChristianityThousandArgumentCertaintyStrongestRighteousComplacentSelf RighteousCompletenessConsecrationSomber Book:Lifestyle Evangelism: Learning to Open Your Life to Those Around You Source: Lifestyle Evangelism: Learning to Open Your Life to Those Around You
“When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.” MenGivingTryingChristianChristArmsGiving UpSaintSinnerRighteousGethsemane Book:The Cost of Discipleship Source: The Cost of Discipleship