Conservative evangelicals don't want government support for our faith, because we believe God created all consciences free and a state-coerced act of worship isn't acceptable to God. Moreover, we believe the gospel isn't in need of state endorsement or assistance. Wall Street may need government bailouts but the Damascus Road never does.
Interpretation
True faith should come freely, without government influence or coercion.
This quote emphasizes the belief that authentic religious faith should arise from individual conscience and conviction rather than being imposed or supported by governmental authority. It suggests that genuine worship and belief in the gospel do not require external validation or assistance, contrasting the needs of financial institutions with the innate and autonomous nature of spiritual faith.
In practice
During a sermon, to discuss the importance of personal faith without government influence.
For too long, we’ve called unbelievers to “invite Jesus into your life.” Jesus doesn’t want to be in your life. Your life is a wreck. Jesus calls you into his life. And his life isn’t boring or purposeless or static. It’s wild and exhilarating and unpredictable.
When we adopt—and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communities—we’re picturing something that’s true about our God. We, like Jesus, see what our Father is doing and do likewise (John 5:19). And what our Father is doing, it turns out, is fighting for orphans, making them sons and daughters.
Ultimately, the transgender question is about more than just sex. It's about what it means to be human.
He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
Unlike the twisters he famously chased in the movies, Bill Paxton was the kind of force of nature you ran toward and never away from.
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