“The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.” JesusNationsChurchSinTasksResurrectionAscensionJesus ResurrectionForgiveness Of Sins Author:Charles Stanley
“Faith, then, is not a set of beliefs about the world. It is rather found in the loving embrace of the world. Because the actual existing church has reduced the Crucifixion and Resurrection to religious affirmations held by a certain tribe, rather than expressions of a type of life, the event they testify to has been almost completely eclipsed.” WorldHas BeensCertainFoundBeliefChurchReligiousEventsExpressionTypeEmbraceResurrectionTribesAffirmationCrucifixion Book:The Divine Magician: The Disappearance of Religion and the Discovery of Faith Source: The Divine Magician: The Disappearance of Religion and the Discovery of Faith
“Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.” KnowsMayTwoAgeChurchInternetResurrectionAttendanceChurch Attendance Author:Rachel Held Evans
“Christendom never came from an unbroken grave. It would have been buried in that grave, as Judas thought it was going to be, and as the Jews thought it was going to be, except there had been a resurrection from the dead. Then you can explain Christendom, churches, and literatures, if Christ rose again; but otherwise they cannot be explained at all. Our whole civilization rests on the broken Cross of the Master, and it is incredible that a civilization like this, in a world advancing steadily for eighteen centuries, has been founded on a lie.” IfsWorldHas BeensWholeLyingLiteratureChristChurchCenturyMastersBrokenCivilizationCrossesRoseIncrediblesJewGravesBuriedResurrectionEasterEighteenAdvancingUnbrokenJudasChristendom Author:Richard Salter Storrs
“In His discourses, His miracles, His parables, His sufferings, His resurrection, He gradually raises the pedestal of His humanity before the world, but under a cover, until the shaft reaches from the grave to the heavens, whenHe lifts the curtain, and displays the figure of a man on a throne, for the worship of the universe; and clothing His church with His own power, He authorizes it to baptize and to preach remission of sins in His own name.” MenWorldSufferingHumanityUniverseNamesHeavenChurchSinFiguresWorshipMiracleRaisesGravesLiftsClothingsResurrectionDisplayThronesDiscourseCurtainsPedestalParablesRemission Author:Edward Thomson
“The primary metaphor for the Easter season is the church as the resurrected people living a resurrected spirituality. Because of Easter we are in union with Christ and are called to live in our baptismal identity in his resurrection. This essential theme of Easter cannot be communicated in a day. It takes a season.” PeopleSpiritualityChristChurchIdentityEssentialsSeasonsUnionsMetaphorPrimariesThemeResurrectionEasterEaster Season Author:Robert E. Webber