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.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that one's life should be transformed by embracing Jesus' way of life, rather than merely inviting Him into a disorganized life.
Russell D. Moore's quote challenges the common notion of inviting Jesus into one's life, suggesting instead that He offers a vibrant and unpredictable existence. By shifting the perspective to joining Jesus' life, the quote encourages individuals to seek a deeper, purpose-filled journey rather than trying to integrate a spiritual element into a chaotic personal life.
In practice
During a church service, when discussing the importance of spiritual transformation.
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.
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.
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn’t mean that they do not exist.
Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.
We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
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