Quotes about Jesus

Worship is what you do when you've heard Jesus speak. A worship life is what you live when you walk with Jesus.

Followership starts with Jesus, stays with Jesus, goes with Jesus, and ends with Jesus.

Followership is not an easy path, and Jesus never pretended otherwise.

there are more biographies of Jesus than of any other human—one hundred thousand biographies in English alone.4

Jesus expressed an earthy, semiotic theology by materializing his message through various media, including images, stories, actions (stilled storms, healed limbs), and objects like spit, fig trees, bursting baskets, etc. He was a master semiotician. You might even say that Jesus' ministry was more a semiotics ministry than a preaching, teaching, or healing ministry.

What do you mean?" they asked Jesus. "I mean this," he replied; and he took the bread, gave thanks, broke it into fragments, and shared those broken pieces with his disciples. And that piece, and those broken pieces, have been shared in every conceivable setting and played in every known language ever since. Faith is the gift of reading the signs of the presence of God. The point of reading signs is not the signs themselves, but the Signifier, Jesus the Christ.

To know the gospel . . . to really know the gospel . . . is to know him who is the good news.

In sum, if Jesus isn't surprising you, you've probably stopped growing spiritually.

The meal is the message. The gospel is an invitation to go to Jesus' house for a meal. The life we live is the journey to that banquet….

But because we don't trust Jesus to do what He says He will do, or believe that He is who He says He is, or have not caught a glimpse of His infinite glory, we sit at drawing boards and draw up programs and methods and draft strategies that we hope might bring people to Christ. But Jesus could not have been clearer: the only begotten Son of God4 is the draw.

Jesus is truth. And I propose that Jesus is the Adamant.

Just as Adam stole the fruit of a forbidden tree and caused all within him to die, Jesus died on a barren tree and thus became its fruit that all in him might live.