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— Michael S. Horton
We need more Christians who take their place alongside believing and unbelieving neighbors in the daily gift exchange — Michael Horton
When the focus becomes 'What would Jesus do?' instead of 'What has Jesus done?' the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.
We have to live up to our Facebook profile. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around. — Michael S. Horton
Our choices are determined by our nature; we choose what we desire and we desire what is most consistent with our nature. — Michael S. Horton
An evil and adulterous [idolatrous] generation seeks after a sign (Matt.
— Michael S. Horton
Surely it is not the business of the Church to adapt Christ to men, but to adapt men to Christ. We do not have our best life or world now.”
― Michael S. Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World
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“We need fewer Christians who want to stand apart from their neighbors, doing something that will really display God’s kingdom in all of its glory.
Why? Because it’s like asking how the meals at home have been this week or asking a farmer how the crops did this week. — Michael S. Horton
Only when we start with the gospel - the most controversial point of Christian faith - are we ready to talk about who God is and how we know him. — Michael S. Horton
God does not exist for us; we exist for God.
— Michael S. Horton
Loving Neighbors Is Tougher Than Loving Causes — Michael S. Horton
A revival is not a miracle," Finney declared. In those days, churches didn’t have to be rockin’ it, nobody expected the preacher to hit it out of the park, and the service was, well, a service.”
― Michael S.
Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World
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“This has been the vicious cycle of evangelical revivalism ever since: a pendulum swinging between enthusiasm and disillusionment rather than steady maturity in Christ through participation in the ordinary life of the covenant community.
— Michael S. Horton
When you are trying to sell a product like therapeutic transformation, there can be no ambiguity, no sense of anxiety, tension, or struggle. — Michael S. Horton
Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ.
— Michael Horton
The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message. — Michael S. Horton
Often, this cry for more practical preaching is the call of the old Adam for more self-help.
— Michael S. Horton
How can I trust that the Bible is reliable? Anabaptists have tended to see the kingdom more as a monastery, a community of true saints called out of the world and a worldly church. — Michael S. Horton
Pragmatism, consumerism, self-help moralism, and narcissism are simply the symptoms of a disease that is, at its heart, theological: — Michael S.
Horton
If we are not explicitly and regularly taught out of it, we will always turn the message of God's rescue operation into a message of self-help. You can't Google your way to it. And I understand the fact that advertisers have always targeted our longing for self-importance. Another promises social transformation.