Quotes about Involvement

And when Wisdom, the focal point of this divine involvement in the world, finally shone forth for Christian faith as the personal Word, the human Christ, all doubts about the possibility of a reconciliation between God and the world disappeared.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually.

Every member must work or quit. No honorary members.

God has made himself known by personally approaching human beings and involving himself in their lives. The history is there for all who wish to see. But no one has to see—now. That is how the divine conspiracy works. With this God in view, the prophetic witness relentlessly speaks, with absolute assurance, of "the times of the restitution of all things" (Acts 3:21).

Religion as actually lived, not as some figment of the academic imagination, always claims to involve knowledge of how things are.

"Knowledge" in biblical language never refers to what we today call "head knowledge," but always to experiential involvement with what is known—to actual engagement with it.

We don't consume the merits of Christ or the services of the church. We are participants, not spectators.

God wants us to participate in the governance of his kingdom.

trouble with this is that a proper concern for nature and our use of nature must be practiced, not by our proxy-holders, but by ourselves

We don't choose what we will do for God; He invites us to join Him where He wants to involve us.

Whether you see Him at work is irrelevant to the fact of God's presence in our world. He is actively and intimately involved in both the affairs of this world and the details of your life.