New Testament Quotes - Page 11

• If joy or urgency are missing from our presentation of the gospel, then our testimony to Christ will be missing that sort of fullness that we find in the New Testament.

  Mark Dever

  Joy, Missing, Christ

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Every believer should evangelize. I know some Christians think that evangelism is only for people with special gifts for it, but I don't believe the New Testament teaches that. While Paul does say that some believers have the call to be evangelists, all of us have the responsibility of evangelism.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Believe, Responsibility

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Protestants and Catholics have historically disagreed on the canon of the Old Testament but agreed on the canon of the New Testament. Christians throughout history have at times been imprisoned and even martyred for keeping books of the Bible or whole Bibles when told to surrender them to political authorities.

  Craig Blomberg

  Christian, Book, Political

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• In the New Testament alone there are Gospels, acts, epistles, and an apocalypse. Gospels contain literary forms like miracles, parables, pronouncements, proverbs, farewell discourses, annunciations, and so on. Epistles can be apologetic, commendatory, friendship-oriented, exhortational, diatribes.

  Craig Blomberg

  Farewell, Miracle, Apologetic

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• All archaeologists in Israel and Palestine make use of the New Testament Gospels. They do this because the Gospels exhibit verisimilitude. In short, the Gospels help archaeologists know where to dig and they help archaeologists understand what they unearth. The 2nd-century Gospels and Gospel-like writings rarely exhibit verisimilitude, so archaeologists rarely appeal to them.

  Craig A. Evans

  Writing, Helping, Palestine

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The New Testament never once warns us that humbly seeking and praying for spiritual gifts will bring anything other than a blessing.

  Sam Storms

  Spiritual, Blessing, Praying

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• There's great poetry in the Old Testament and the New Testament. And I'm not interested in trying to prove whether this paragraph is as it was or as it should have been or should not be. My pursuit is to find the truth for me in those stories and make them apropos. The important thing is that people wrote them. These were inspirational stories, and you got to see them that way. If you don't, you'll get in trouble. So I'm not going to spend a lot of time trying to find out whether or not Mary was a virgin. What do I care about Mary being a virgin?

  Cecil Williams

  People, Trying, Important

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The word yoga is the same as the English word "yoke". So in the New Testament when Jesus Christ says, "My yoke is easy and my burden is light," my interpretation is that he's referring to yoga. It means "union" - Union of the body, mind and the spirit as one continuum of consciousness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Jesus, Yoga, Mean

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I detest legalism. I certainly don't want to try to pour new wine into old wineskins, imposing superseded First Covenant restrictions on Christians. But at the same time, every New Testament example of giving goes far beyond the tithe. However, none falls short of it.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Fall, Wine

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Second, if you disbelieve in the reality of good and evil spirit agents, you fundamentally change the narrative of Scripture. The motif of spiritual warfare is a through-line of both the Old and New Testaments (NT). And in the NT, the meaning of what Jesus was doing in his life, ministry, death and resurrection is fundamentally tied up with the belief in spiritual warfare. Take away Satan, and you take away one of the most fundamental reasons Jesus came to earth!

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Spiritual, Jesus, Reality

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The Bible is a collection of writings by lots of different people written over maybe a thousand years, from a number of centuries before Jesus to a century after Jesus. I often like to refer to it as "the Scriptures" to make that point about it being lots of writings that were originally separate. What these writings have in common is that "the Old Testament" is writings that grabbed the Jewish people; writings that convinced them that they were God's word to them. And "the New Testament" is writings that grabbed people who believed in Jesus in the same way.

  John Goldingay

  Jesus, Writing, People

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• Just as the superstar pastor model can have its problems once the superstar pastor gets old or has a scandal or something, the house church model... there's a reason that the house churches of the New Testament era grew up into a more institutional faith down the road.

  Ross Douthat

  House, Church, Scandal

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jesus, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Who wrote the Bible? Current scholarship, to my knowledge, assumes that the material that constitutes the Old Testament was put together from various oral and folk traditions (many of them going far back) in the Hellenistic period. That was one of several currents, of which the collection that formed the New Testament was another.

  Noam Chomsky

  Together, Assuming, Tradition

  Source: chomsky.info

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• The New Testament states that man cannot serve two masters. He must choose one -God, and not the other - money. For what man chooses will reveal his heart.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Heart, Men, Two

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It's a mistake to expect the laws of the country to reflect the imperatives of the New Testament and the Sermon on the Mount. I applaud the efforts of the Church to provide for people in need, regardless of where they're from or how they got here. But I think it's a mistake to turn around and expect a nation to act that way. Americans are uniquely tempted to imagine that we are a church, and that we are a universal nation. This is one of the reasons why we're such a dangerous country.

  Kelefa Sanneh

  Country, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Too often preachers want to deal with people simply at the level of publicly accessible reason. We participate with them in their own epistemology. But this is not New Testament preaching. We have a message that is not from this world; it is from God. We don't know it by our own cleverness; we know it because God has revealed it.

  Mark Dever

  People, World, Levels

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• As all types and figures in the Law were but empty shadows without the coming of Christ, so the New Testament is but a dead letter without the Holy Spirit in redeemed men as the living power of a full salvation.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Men

  William Law (2012). “The Power of the Spirit”, p.23, CLC Publications

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• It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. I know of no book that has so few readers. There is none so truly strange, and heretical, and unpopular. To Christians, no less than Greeks and Jews, it is foolishness and a stumbling-block.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Christian, Appreciation, Block

  A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

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• In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Enemy, Cherish

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.96, SCM Press

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• Know that you are part of a joyful Universe. Allow your romantic, ecstatic, blissful emotions to appear more frequently in your daily life. When you feel joy, experience it and express it! As the New Testament says, 'Joy is the fruit of the Spirit.'

  Wayne Dyer

  Joy, Fruits Of The Spirit, Emotion

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 05, 2013

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• An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.

  John Stott

  Christian, Lying, Community

  John Stott (2012). “The Living Church”, p.15, SPCK

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• If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Old And New

  Andy Stanley (2012). “Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision”, p.62, Multnomah

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• My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

  Reza Aslan

  Jesus, Doe, Use

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• When you read the New Testament, you see the Holy Spirit was supposed to change everything so that this gathering of people who call themselves Christians had this supernatural element
  about them.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Supernatural Elements, People

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