The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There probably is a God, but they are either turned off by the church or wounded by the church or wary of the church for whatever reason.
From Philip Yancey
I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!
The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.
God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.
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