“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
“Your calling may be to find new ways to tell the story of redemption, to create fresh symbols tat will speak of… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The church's task in the world is to model genuine humanness as a sign and an invitation to those around.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Do not despise the small but significant symbolic act. God probably does not want you to reorganize the entire discipline or the… — 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
“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
“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 live, therefore, between Easter and the consummation, following Jesus Christ in the power of the Spirit and commissioned to be for… — 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
“You are called to be truly human, but it is nothing short of the life of God within you that enables you… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The Christian vocation is to be in prayer, in the Spirit, at the place where the world is in pain, and as… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“[re: I Corinthians 15:34,58] "The present life of the church, in other words, is not about "soul-making," the attempt to produce or… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Our task is to announce in deed and word that the exile is over, to enact the symbols that speak of healing… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“You are following Jesus and shaping our world in the power of the Spirit. And when the final consummation comes, the work… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Paul is the classic example of the early Christian who has woven resurrection so thoroughly into his thinking and practice that if… — 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
