Coercion Quote by Brian D. McLaren

“The cross is a crisis point for all societies which seek to produce me in and women of quiescence, men and women who are…

— Megan McKenna

“The cross is shock therapy for a world addicted to solving its problems through violence. The cross shocks us into the devastating realization that…

— Brian Zahnd

The cross guarantees that even in your darkest moment God will never turn in disgust and walk away. There is no rebellion, no weakness,…

— Paul David Tripp

If the cross is a personal act of violence perpetrated by God towards humankind but borne by his Son, then it makes a mockery…

— Steve Chalke

“The cross is not a mechanism we use to get to God, but the way God has come to find and raise us.”

— Joshua Ryan Butler

“The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom;…

— John Howard Yoder

“The cross of Christ makes demands of us. It will not allow us to love the world and love Christ. It will not permit…

— Mike McKinley

“The cross is not the suffering tied to being natural existence, but the suffering tied to being Christians. The cross is never simply a…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The cross is not the suffering tied to natural existence, but the suffering tied to being Christians. The cross is never simply a matter…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.

— Pope Francis

“The church is never more in danger than when it sees itself simply as the solution-bearer and forgets that every day it too must…

— N.T. Wright