Timothy Keller Quotes About Son

Quotes about: Son

• God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

  Timothy Keller

  Son, Giving, Needs

• Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a project of self-salvation, to using God and others in order to get power and control for themselves. We are just going about it in different ways. Even though both sons are wrong, however, the father cares for them and invites them both back into his love and feast.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Father, Son

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.16, Penguin

• Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It 's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God .

  Timothy Keller

  Father, Mean, Son

  "The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith".

• Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.

  Timothy Keller

  Father, Son, Judging

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.16, Penguin

• I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because Jesus is the Son of God." But that's answering the why with more what. Increasingly we live in a time in which you can't avoid the why question. Just giving the what (for example, a vivid gospel presentation) worked in the days when the cultural institutions created an environment in which Christianity just felt true or at least honorable. But in a post-Christendom society, in the marketplace of ideas, you have to explain why this is true, or people will just dismiss it.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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