N. T. Wright Quotes

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• If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus. If you want to know what love is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what grief is, look at Jesus. And go on looking until you’re not just a spectator, but you’re actually part of the drama which has him as the central character.

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  Jesus, Drama, Grief

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• Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon himself. Jesus doesn't explain why there is suffering, illness, and death in the world. He brings healing and hope. He doesn't allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar. He allows evil to do its worst to him. He exhausts it, drains its power, and emerges with new life.

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  Death, Christian, Hope

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• Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

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  Heaven, Dying, Culture

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• Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion.

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  Christian, Healing, Our World

  "The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is". Book by N. T. Wright, 1999.

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• People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.

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  People, Upset, Teach

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• Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.

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  Jesus, Easter, Prayer

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• It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.

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  Needs, Greatness Of God, Great Faith

  N. T. Wright (2004). “Luke for Everyone”, p.200, Westminster John Knox Press

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• What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.

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  Teaching, Writing, Caring

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• You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.

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  Character, Admiration, Worship

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• The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

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  Heart, Character, Window

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• Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

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  Love Is, Tolerance, Virtue

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• The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also exists for a third purpose, which serves the other two: to encourage one another, to build one another up in faith, to pray with and for one another, to learn from one another and teach one another, and to set one another examples to follow, challenges to take up, and urgent tasks to perform. This is all part of what is known loosely as fellowship.

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  Two, Challenges, Church

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• Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved

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  Feet, Knees, Beloved

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made for relationship, we insist on our own way. Made for beauty, we are satisfied with sentiment. But new creation has already begun. The sun has begun to rise. Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world ... That, quite simply, is what it means to be Christian: to follow Jesus Christ into the new world, God's new world, which he has thrown open before us.

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  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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• But if Christians don’t get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?

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  Christian, Jesus, People

  N. T. Wright (2011). “Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea.

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  Tea, Riot

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• True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

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  Dark, Waiting, Trust In God

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.7, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• You become like what you worship

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  Idols, Idol Worship, Worship

  N. T. Wright (2011). “Revelation for Everyone”, p.92, Presbyterian Publishing Corp

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• The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.

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  Knowing, People, Giving

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• The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together.

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  Together, Worship, Theology

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.

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  Reality, Glimpse, Done

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• When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.

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  Jesus, Giving, Meals

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• Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.

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  Heaven, Earth, Temples

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• The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.

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  Jesus, Tanks, World

  "N.T. Wright: On Jesus and Writing". Interview with Marcia Z. Nelson, www.publishersweekly.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.

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  Christian, Thinking, Knowing

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