Quotes about Christ

Sin makes us fools. We are easily deceived, attracted to hollow and deceptive philosophy, and enticed by arguments that lead us away from Christ. Sin blinds us to our sin!

Human marriage is only an illustration of our union with Christ. God ordained marriage to help us understand what it means to be in relationship with him.

If I am married to Christ, the core of my present life is not personal happiness, but spiritual purity.

If Christ is indeed the only prize worth living for, we need to ponder just how wonderful he is.

Either I get my identity vertically, out of my sense of who God is and worship who he has made me in Christ, or I will seek to get my identity horizontally, out of my circumstances, relationships, and successes.

Is there evidence that you are looking to your relationships to give you things you have already been given in Christ?

Change within community is counterintuitive to the way we often think, but Scripture clearly presents it as God's way of making us more like Christ.

As we live with each other in the middle of the already and the not yet, we need more than elevated emotion and accurate understanding. We need eyes to see this one amazing reality: we are Christ's and he is ours. We need to see that it is spiritually impossible for us to ever be alone. His amazing resources of grace are constantly at our disposal.

To the degree that you forget you are a sinner, you will underestimate your daily need for Christ and the relationships in his body that are his tools of change.

Our culture abounds with hollow and deceptive theories of change that masquerade as biblical wisdom, often because they borrow some aspect of biblical truth. Yet they are hollow because they miss the center of biblical wisdom, which is Christ.

Because it is grounded in the Trinity, our unity also allows us to celebrate our diversity in the body of Christ.

But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it