So the gospel humbles me before anyone, telling me I am a sinner saved only by grace. But it also emboldens me before anyone, telling me I am loved and honored by the only eyes in the universe that really count…
Do you see what this means? Yes, we don’t know the reason God allows evil and suffering to continue, but we know what the reason isn’t, what it can’t be. It can’t be that he doesn’t love us! It can’t be that he doesn’t care…
As Keller describes, he chose Mark over other gospels because you get more of Jesus in it. This would be a great book to give to someone who is “kicking the tires” on Christianity…
My understanding of how you reach a culture is Christians have to be extremely like the people around them, and yet at the same time extremely unlike them…