CCC Gainesville | Blog
Sunday at 8:30 and 11:15 we will think together about the Word of God, and how we receive and respond to it in our lives.
Here are two quotes from Eugene Peterson followed by one from Tim Keller:
“We enter the text to meet God as he reveals himself, not to look for truth or history or morals that we can use for ourselves.”
“The authority of the Bible is immediately derived from the authorial presence of God. In other words, this is not an impersonal authority, an assemblage of facts or truths. This is not the bookish authority that we associate with legislation codified in a law library, or the factual authority of a textbook on mathematics. This is revelation, personally revealed – letting us in on something, telling us person to person what it means to live our lives as men and women created in the image of God.”
“The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome… religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.”
Spread the word!
