Quotes about Author
They set the kindling afire to consume the body of a man who had but one goal—to make the Bible readable for everyone.
— Scot McKnight
That is, until we find the story that leads us to the gospel claim that Jesus is the Messiah, we don't have the Bible's story right.
— Scot McKnight
The heart of Babylon will always be arrogant self-sufficiency that has no need for God, no care for the people of God, and no commitment to the ways of God.
— Scot McKnight
Revelation "is not about a rapture out of this world but about faithful discipleship in this world.
— Scot McKnight
God's kingdom happens when human beings are empowered by God's Spirit to do God's kingdom work in the shape of a new community.
— Scot McKnight
Yet we cannot fail to observe that the Golden Rule of 7:12 officially closes the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon and summarizes the essence of the Sermon.
— Scot McKnight
the consistency of the Old Testament warnings for the covenant community formed a natural bridge to the New Testament warnings.
— Scot McKnight
Jesus is the gospel-shaped King. There is no other messianic story like the one Jesus told and lived.
— Scot McKnight
In his book The Indelible Image, New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III reiterates a common piece of interpretive wisdom: "A text without a context is just a pretext for what we want it to mean.
— Scot McKnight
The book of Revelation requires us to take a stand for the Lamb in this world. To read it well we must learn to think "theo-politically," or to say this another way, the entire book of Revelation is about public discipleship.
— Scot McKnight
A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.
— William Faulkner
I don't like injustice. We're living in a time where, whether it's the Internet or tabloids, being sh-tty has become a sport. We're just grown-up bullies.
— Jennifer Aniston