“It is the very fact that I cannot manipulate, coerce or control God that makes me able to trust God, for if I could overpower the Almighty, so could someone else. If I could make God conform to my laundry list of things I think God should do, would that really be God? My small ideas about God don’t actually have the power to shrink God down into manageable bites, and my little fantasies about life don’t have the power to diminish life, except in my mind.”
Jeanie Miley
Author, lecturer, teacher and blogger (jeaniemiley.com)
“The story of evangelical theology is not so much getting someone saved and getting them to heaven, but it is Christ redeeming not only the individual person but all creation as well. You’re seeing a transformation of, or a maturity of, interpreting Scripture to do with God’s broader agenda of redemption to things, beyond just the personal, individual salvation.”
Joel Hunter
Pastor of Northland Church in Orlando, Fla., on why increasing numbers of Christians are concerned about the environment (RNS)
“Whoever controls the words that are used in translation ultimately controls how we are able to think about theological issues. The words open or close doors for our understanding of God. And ultimately, the words determine who has status in the church, and who does not.”
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Jim Evans
Pastor of First Baptist Church in Auburn, Ala., commenting on Bible translations (Sightings/RNS)
“I can no longer justify spending my short time in this world participating in or supporting war. … I must try to save souls, not help take them.”
Michael Barnes
Granted conscientious objector status by a federal judge (Associated Press/RNS)
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