Top 38 Preston Sprinkle Quotes
#1. We no longer view the world through the dim mist of justice and reward, but through the bright lens of resurrection, where suffering leads to glory and slaughtered lambs rule the earth.
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#2. Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver. It is one-way love.
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#3. Jesus came into our world as a man to embody grace. He left us, the church, to be the body of Christ, not a flock of parakeets that repeat Christian jargon but the ongoing in-the-flesh presence of His grace. We are the evidence that God's grace is more than just words.
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#4. Loving your enemy. Doing good things for evil people. Never taking vengeance. Responding to violence with nonviolent love - even if it brings suffering. These are not options, but the primary character traits of those who claim to follow a crucified God.
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#5. But if we never hug a harlot, befriend a beggar, or forgive our enemy seventy times seven, then we confess grace with our lips but mock it with our lives.
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#6. God rescues sinners, losers, victims - those who know they can't help themselves.
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#7. We are all, as Robert Robinson wrote in his well-known hymn "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing," "prone to wander ... prone to leave the God I love." We are prone to wander, but God is prone to pursue. And He's faster.
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#8. But grace has no leash. It's untamed, unbound, and runs wild and free.
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#10. Israel's journey from Egypt to Canaan is peppered with strange events: the earth swallows a clan, almond blossoms sprout from a rod, and a donkey opens its mouth to argue with a wayward prophet. Who says the Bible is dull?
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#11. As long as we pray, love, suffer, and herald the good news that Jesus is King, we will continue to see the kingdom of God thunder against the kingdom of Satan. We need to make sure we're fighting in the right war with the right means.
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#12. But our hope does not lie in enforcing our ethic upon secular governments. We can't legislate the kingdom of God into existence.
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#13. The Incarnate One is truly human as well as truly divine, and so properly spoken of as our friend and brother as well as our Lord and God.
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#14. God works within a broken system to gradually improve it until it's eventually done away with.
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#15. God helps those who realize that they can't help themselves.
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#16. The nonviolent rhythms of the cross meet the melodies of this world with dissonance. I
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#17. You can't make God love you. God loves you because of who He is and because of what Christ has done. His love is not based on what you do, or what you don't do.
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#18. genuine relationships are always the best place to start as we seek to integrate our ethical views in the daily life of ministry.
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#19. It's tough to follow Jesus while clutching on to our rights, our honor, our reputation. This kingdom stuff isn't for the fainthearted.
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#20. Jesus planted the first church on earth with a group of hoodlums who wouldn't be let inside the doors of most churches today.
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#21. The most extravagant sinners of Jesus's day receive His most compassionate welcome. Grace is a divine vulgarity that stands caution on its head. It refuses to play it safe and lay it up. Grace is recklessly generous, uncomfortably promiscuous.
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#22. Is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.
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#23. Because Jesus came to set the captives free, life does not have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, and validate ourselves.
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#24. Grace is God's aggressive pursuit of, and stubborn delight in, freakishly foul people.
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#25. From beginning to end, our Christian lives - highs and lows, fasting and fornication - are a tapestry of grace.
Charis: God's Scandalous Grace for Us (p. 31).
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#26. The most visible form of Jesus's not-of-this-world kingdom is the radical, head-turning love of one's enemies, even (or especially) when we are suffering at their hands. Peter mentions this cruciform enemy-love no fewer than ten times in five chapters, making it the artery of the letter.
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#27. Grace pursues; grace transforms; grace molds porn stars into objects of delight. Grace means that God seeks out repugnant sinners - the Judahs of the world - and uses them to redeem wicked people. And we are Judah.
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#28. The idea that there is an unconditional love that relieves the pressure, forgives our failures, and replaces our fear with faith seems too good to be true.
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#29. Before we apply Joshua to our lives, we need to make sure which side of the Jordan we are living on. Militarism invites God's wrath.
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#30. A person who chooses to love his or her enemies can have no enemies. That person is left only with neighbors.
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#31. You wear a crown of glory and honor. The transcendent King of creation placed it upon your head. When you look into the mirror and see scars and zits and fat and abuse and loneliness and pain, Yahweh sees glory and honor.
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#32. Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return.
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#33. I wonder how many people have been killed, tortured, and in some cases cannibalized, all because certain Christians (mis)applied the book of Joshua to their lives.
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#34. I do not recognize the empire of this world," said one early Christian named Speratus. "I acknowledge my Lord who is the emperor of kings and of all nations.
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#35. Without the crucified Christ, nonviolence has little power. With Christ at the center, nonviolence conquers the world.
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#36. But whenever the church fails to mediate God's counterintuitive delight in broken people, the pain of sin will only be magnified until it suffocates our souls. Good deeds and spiritual lingo can't heal a human heart suffocated by evil. Only grace can. Rich, embodied, earthy charis.
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#37. Grace is a dangerous topic because the Bible is a dangerous book. It wrecks people, it offends people, and it's tough to read from the suburbs.
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#38. Jesus's central message was not primarily about how to get to heaven when you die, or about becoming a better person. The central message of Jesus was about the coming of God's kingdom.
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