Quotes about Witness

But if you ask the average person how Christians live, they are struck silent.

Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the gospel made visible.

In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.

Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.

To do any less than to make Him known is to fail to really love our neighbors.

Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.

Each act of obedience by the Christian is a modest proof, unequivocal for all its imperfection, of the reality of what he attests.

Neither explaining suffering nor offering a program for the elimination of suffering, Lamentations keeps company with the extensive biblical witness that gives dignity to suffering by insisting that God enters our suffering and is companion to our suffering.

Proper work for the Christian is witness, not apology, and Psalm 124 is an excellent model.

Genuine apocalyptic that has no parentage in biblical sources or gospel commitments, does promote a progeny of irresponsibility (and the brats are noisily and distressingly in evidence on every American street), but the real thing, the conceived-in-holy-wedlock apocalyptic, develops communities that are passionately patient, courageously committed to witness and work in the kingdom of God no matter how long it takes, or how much it costs.

Pastor, we think we might be on to something. That empty tomb—could that be an echo of the empty mercy seat of the ark? That the two angels in 'dazzling clothes' who gave witness at the empty tomb of Jesus might be an allusion to the two cherubim marking the emptiness that is fullness at the ark?

From an outsider it must have looked much of the time as if the wicked fist dominated the Israelites' lives. From the inside the witness of faith said that it did not: