Timothy Keller idézet

Timothy J. Keller amerikai keresztyén író, előadó és a Redeemer Presbiteriánus Gyülekezet alapító lelkésze, New Yorkban.

Ő írta a The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism , amely több díjat is kapott a World Magazine és Christianity Today újságoktól, és 7. volt a New York Times szépirodalmi bestseller listáján, 2008 márciusában. Wikipedia

✵ 1950

“What does it mean, then, to become part of God’s work in the world? What does it mean to live a Christian life? One way to answer that question is to look back into the life of the Trinity and the original creation. God made us to ever increasingly share in his own joy and delight in the same way he has joy and delight within himself. We share his joy first as we give him glory (worshipping and serving him rather than ourselves); second, as we honor and serve the dignity of other human beings made in the image of God’s glory; and third, as we cherish his derivative glory in the world of nature, which also reflects it. We glorify and enjoy him only as we worship him, serve the human community, and care for the created environment.
Another way to look at the Christian life, however, is to see it from the perspective of the final restoration. The world and our hearts are broken. Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection was an infinitely costly rescue operation to restore justice to the oppressed and marginalized, physical wholeness to the diseased and dying, community to the isolated and lonely, and spiritual joy and connection to those alienated from God. To be a Christian today is to become part of that same operation, with the expectation of suffering and hardship and the joyful assurance of eventual success.”

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The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism (2008), Ch. 14: The Dance of God

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