Quotes about People

For it is God's business to create, and people's business to name.

one of the more unfortunate side effects is that much apologetics has lost touch with evangelism and come to be all about "arguments," and in particular about winning arguments rather than winning hearts and minds and people. Our urgent need today is to reunite evangelism and apologetics, to make sure that our best arguments are directed toward winning people and not just winning arguments, and to seek to do all this in a manner that is true to the gospel itself.

Our urgent need today is to reunite evangelism and apologetics, to make sure that our best arguments are directed toward winning people and not just winning arguments, and to seek to do all this in a manner that is true to the gospel itself.

We live in an age in which the overwhelming majority of people appear to be comfortable with their myopia.

Love is "the alpha and the omega of apologetics," in the sense that all we say must come from love, and it must lead to love and to the One who is love—in other words, Christian advocacy must move from our love for God and his truth and beauty, to our love for the people we talk to and work right up to their love for God and his truth and beauty in their turn.

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive hands

The call is to do theology in loving community with other people.

God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

You see, culture isn't the problem, people are.