N. T. Wright Quotes About Reconciliation

Quotes about: Reconciliation

• It is faith that looks up at the creator God and knows him to be the God of love. And it is faith that looks out at the world with the longing to bring that love to bear in healing reconciliation, and hope.

  N. T. Wright

  Healing, Creator God, Looks

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.45, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.

  N. T. Wright

  Healing, Pride, Greed

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.56, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Paul's vision, though, is starting small, with actual communities in which reconciliation and justice has to be practiced - like the rich/poor distinction in the Corinthian church, for instance, or the projected reconciliation between Philemon and Onesimus. But he clearly believes (Ephesians 3) that communities like this send a signal to the wider world that Jesus is Lord - which is aimed at then the whole world coming into line.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Believe, Justice

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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