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Book: "Preach The Word" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com

Author: Mark Stibbe (ed Greg Haslam)

Quote: If we had been among Jesus' listeners on the hillside we would have been powerfully impacted by his relevance. To the woman at the well, Jesus said "Let's talk about water". To the fishermen, Jesus said, "Let's talk about fishing: I want to make you fishers of men." To the taxmen, He said, "Let's talk about money."

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Quote: Sometimes the choice is not between right and wrong, but between good and better. Yet any choice we make will be the right one if made with these words of Jesus in mind: "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." - Mt 6:33 "Ruth's" Noble Choice to follow Naomi and her God illustrates the truth of Jesus' words!

Webpage: http://executableoutlines.com/ruth/ruth_so.pdf

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Author: Mark Driscoll

Quote: You are not an animal. You are the glory of God. You are not a pervert. You are the glory of God. You are not an addict. You are the glory of God. You are not a victim. You are the glory of God. You are not a fool. You are the glory of God. Jesus, the god-man who radiated the Father's glory perfectly, has made it possible for you to be the glory of God. Jesus your King, Warrior, and Lord hung upon his cross in your place to atone for all of your sins, including sexual perversion (Col. 2:13-15). If you repent of your sin, Jesus will forgive you for it and cleanse you from it, thereby taking away your guilt, shame, defeat, and filth (1 John 1:9; Zech. 3:1-9).

Webpage: http://relit.org/porn_again_christian/ch6.php

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Author: Mark Driscoll

Quote: There is a strong drift toward the hard theological left. Some emergent types want to recast Jesus as a limp-wrist hippie in a dress with a lot of product in His hair, who drank decaf and made pithy Zen statements about life while shopping for the perfect pair of shoes. In Revelation, Jesus is a prize fighter with a tattoo down His leg, a sword in His hand and the commitment to make someone bleed. That is a guy I can worship. I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up. I fear some are becoming more cultural than Christian, and without a big Jesus who has authority and hates sin as revealed in the Bible, we will have less and less Christians, and more and more confused, spiritually self-righteous blogger critics of Christianity.

Webpage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Driscoll

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Book: "Zion's Christian soldiers" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com

Author: Stephen Sizer

Quote: The church of Jesus Christ therefore brings together in a unity of faith and love his children under the old and new covenants, Jews and Gentiles who trust and believe in Jesus, the one looking forward, the other looking back to his first coming and upward to his second.

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Author: Stephen Sizer

Quote: Teaching about the Land is conspicuous by its absence in the teaching of Jesus. There are four or five explicit references to the Land in the Gospels and these are indirect. The strongest is found in the Beatitudes. In Matthew 5:5 Jesus quotes from Psalm 37:11. The blessing of the meek and the inheritance of the land as described in the Psalms is echoed by Christ in the Sermon on the Mount. Yet it is not the Land but the earth that they will inherit. The Greek term for earth here is the same word used in the Septuagint for land yet the context of Jesus Beatitudes requires that the perspective be stretched beyond mere possession of Palestine. Either that or all Christians who live by the Sermon on the Mount possess the land of the Bible by their meekness. Since the Land was such a fundamental part of Judaism at the time of Christ, his silence can only have been deliberate. Jesus of Nazareth, who proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord only to die accursed on a cross and so pollute the land, and by that act and its consequences to shatter the geographic dimension of the religion of his fathers. Like everything else, the Land also in the New testament drives us to ponder the mystery of Jesus, the Christ, who by his cross and resurrection broke not only the bonds of death for early Christians but also the bonds of the land. (W.D. Davies)

Webpage: http://www.cc-vw.org/articles/dispen4.html

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Book: "True Fellowship" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com

Quote: Jesus knew that it was the night of his betrayal and that the very next morning he would suffer on a cross for the sins of the world. He wouid from out viewpoint, have had every reason to be preoccupied with his imminent sufferings. Yet Jesus took time to tend to a duty -washing the feet of guests - that was usually left to the lowest servant in a household. He did this with full awareness of his own divine dignity. It was not in spite of his greatness but because His greatness that Jesus served his disciples on that evening. His own attitude toward servanthood, that true greatness in the Kingdom of God consists not in position or authority but in serving one another. If we are to master the scriptures principles of true biblical fellowship we must master this one: True greatness in the Kingdom of Heaven consists in serving one another. Jesus said 'Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servants' Matthew 20:26

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Book: "Zion's Christian soldiers" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com

Author: Stephen Sizer

Quote: Jesus redefines the boundaries of the Kingdom of God to embrace the whole world. For example, in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus takes a promise made to the Jewish people concerning the land from Psalm 37, and applies it to his own followers anywhere in the world (Matt 5:5)

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Quote: A drunk stumbled along a baptismal service on Sunday afternoon down by the river. He proceeded to walk down into the water and stood next to the Preacher. The minister turned and noticed the old drunk and said, "Mister, Are you ready to find Jesus?" The drunk looks back and says, "Yes, Preacher. I sure am." The minister then dunked the fellow under the water and pulled him right back up. "Have you found Jesus?" the preacher asks. "No, I didn't!" says the drunk. The preacher then dunks him under for quite a bit longer, brings him up and says, "Now, brother, have you found Jesus?" "No, I did not Preacher." The preacher in disgust holds the man under for at least 30 seconds this time brings him out of the water and says in a harsh tone, "Friend, are you sure you haven't found Jesus yet?" The old drunk wipes his eyes and says to the preacher..."Are you sure this is where he fell in?"

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Book: "Listening to the beliefs of the emerging Church" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com

Author: Mark Driscoll

Quote: The curious paradox of the atoning death of a bloody Jesus rising above the plane of human history with a mocking crown of thorns is that he is offensive in an attractive way. It is the utter horror of the cross that cuts through the chatter, noise, and nonsense of our day to rivet our attention, shut our mouths, and compel us to listen to an impassioned dying man who is crying out for the forgiveness of our sins and to ask why he suffered. Tragically, if we lose the offense of the cross, we also lose the attraction of the cross so that no one is compelled to look at Jesus. Therefore, Jesus does not need a marketing firm or a makeover as much as a prophet to preach the horror of the cross unashamedly.

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