“This means that the church, the followers of Jesus Christ, live in the bright interval between Easter and the final great consummation.… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“When you place the four emerging “canonical” gospels alongside the Jesus documents that others had written, again and again it appears that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Jesus is now enthroned as the Lord of heaven and earth. His kingdom has been established. And this kingdom is to be… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“For far too long now Christians have told the story of Jesus as if it hooked up not with the story of… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“[Christians] must become, must be known as, the people who don't hold grudges, who don't sulk. We must be the people who… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The point [of the gospels] is not whether Jesus is God, but what God is doing in and through Jesus. What is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“True freedom is the gift of the Spirit, the result of grace: but, precisely because it is freedom FOR as well as… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Note, though, something else of great significance about the whole Christian theology of resurrection, ascension, second coming, and hope. This theology was… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly like spirituality in whatever… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The New Testament insists, in book after book, that when Jesus of Nazareth died on the cross, something happened as a result… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Our task, as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to the world that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“It is startling to reflect on just how diminished the average modern Western Christian vision of “hope,” of “inheritance,” or indeed of… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“the gospel, in the New Testament, is the good news that God (the world’s creator) is at last becoming king and that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Once you understand how first-century Jewish covenant theology actually works, you will see that law-court language, `participation' language, and a great deal… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“To hope for a better future in this world—for the poor, the sick, the lonely and depressed, for the slaves, the refugees,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Art is love creating new worlds; justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“There is a danger in Christians supposing that they simply have to be flaky, awkward, against the government all the time, continually… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“In Matthew’s gospel, Jesus’s sayings in the other gospels about the “kingdom of God” are rendered as “kingdom of heaven”; since many… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“This does not, therefore, mean `the gospel reveals justification by faith as the true scheme of salvation, as opposed to Jewish self-help… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Our task is to implement Jesus' unique achievement . We are like the musicians called to play and sing the unique and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The gospel of Jesus points us and indeed urges us to be at the leading edge of the whole culture, articulating in… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“We use the gospels. We read them aloud in worship. We often preach from them. But have we even begun to hear… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“If you are to shape your world in following Christ, you are called, prayerfully, to discern where in your discipline the human… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“It is not about "life after death" as such. Rather, it's a way of talking about being bodily alive again after a… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“This means that the church, the followers of Jesus Christ, live in the bright interval between Easter and the final great consummation. Let's make… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The very mention of crucifixion was taboo in polite Roman circles, since it was the lowest form of capital punishment, reserved for slaves and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Sunday, kept as a commemoration of Easter ever since that event itself (a quite remarkable phenomenon when you come to think about it), is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The point of trying to understand the cross better is not so that we can congratulate ourselves for having solved an intellectual crossword puzzle,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“there is no such thing as a god’s-eye view (by which would be meant a Deist god’s-eye view) available to human beings, a point… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The “goal” is not “heaven,” but a renewed human vocation within God’s renewed creation. This is what every biblical book from Genesis on is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“having a hard enough time explaining to his disciples that he had to die; they never really grasped that at all, and they certainly… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“If we are talking about the victory over evil and the launch of new creation, it won’t make much sense unless we are working… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The personal message of Good Friday, expressed in so many hymns and prayers which draw on the tradition of the Suffering Servant (Isaiah 53)… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time and God's time, of the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Blessings on the poor in spirit! The kingdom of heaven is yours” (Matt. 5:3) doesn’t mean, “You will go to heaven when you die.”… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
