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    Henry Ward Beecher
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    I call the New Testament the Book of Joy. There is nowhere in the world another book that is pervaded with such a spirit of exhilaration.

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    Joshua Jipp
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    Romans 12:1, Matthew 22:37-38, James 2:14-17, John 14:15, Luke 9:23, Philippians 2:5-8, Romans 10:9-10, Psalm 1:1-6
    New Testament theology is ‘inherently self-involving as it summons the reader to believe, confess, obey, and understand the entirety of one’s existence—both her or his thinking and willing—in light of...

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    N. T. Wright
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    The New Testament insists that we put Jesus at the centre of the picture and work outwards from there.

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    W. D. Davies
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    The witness of the New Testament is, therefore, twofold: it transcends the land, Jerusalem, the Temple. Yes: but its History and Theology demand a concern with these realities also. Is there a reconci...

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    Stanley Grenz
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    According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like.

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    Mark Talbot
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    American Christianity tends toward a kind of "easy-believism." The Gospel is often presented in a way that suggests that someone is saved as soon as he or she has "accepted" Jesus ...

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    William Barclay
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    Hebrews 4:12, 2 Peter 1:20-21 , 2 Timothy 3:16-17
    It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.

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    Rudolf Bultmann
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    1 Kings 17:8-16, Daniel 6:16-23, Matthew 14:25-31, Luke 4:33-36, John 2:1-11 , Psalm 77:14-15
    It is impossible to use electric light and the wireless and to avail ourselves of modern medical and surgical discoveries, and at the same time believe in the New Testament world of spirits and miracl...

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    It is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings…If there is any c...

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    Athanasius of Alexandria
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    Revelation 22:18-19, Acts 8:26-40, Hebrews 4:12, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Isaiah 55:10-11, Psalm 119:105
    These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let ...

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    Joseph F. Kelly
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    Luke had a great insight that changed Christianity. He recognized that the world would not end immediately. Jesus had died a half century before Luke wrote, and he believed that by constantly delaying...

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    A.M. Hunter
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    The New Testament makes it clear that the early Church’s message always …had two aspects—one theological, the other ethical: (i) the Gospel which the apostles preached; and (ii) the Commandment, growi...

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    William Manson
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    When we turn to the New Testament, we pass from the climate of prediction to that of fulfillment. The things which God had foreshadowed by the lips of His holy prophets He has now, in part at least, b...

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    John Ortberg
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    In the New Testament, the terms salvation and eternal life and Kingdom of God all speak to this same life-altering reality that we grasp by becoming disciples of Jesus. Salvation isn’t about getting y...

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    Michael Gorman
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    Romans 8:19-21, 1 Corinthians 15:42-44, Philippians 3:20-21, Colossians 1:16-18, Revelation 21:, 2 Corinthians 5:17
    Salvation in the New Testament is consistently portrayed not as escape from creation but as the redemption and transformation of creation.

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    N. T. Wright and Michael Bird
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    Matthew 28:18, John 14:6, John 1:18, Matthew 7:29
    Jesus did not tell his disciples that all authority is vested in the books that they would write; he insisted that it was vested in his own person. And yet Jesus’ authority operates through the New Te...

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    Vaughan Roberts
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    The Old Testament on its own is an unfinished story; a promise without a fulfilment. We must read on to the New Testament if we want to know what it really means. And the New Testament constantly look...

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    Walter Brueggemann
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    In the Old Testament there is no timeless space, but there is also no spaceless time. There is rather storied place, that is a place which has meaning because of the history lodged there. There are st...

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    Jay Adams
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    Probably in our own, modern substitutes for (immediate baptism upon profession) – raising hands, coming forward, etc. – are the result of a felt need to do something for those who believe. It seems ce...

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    N. T. Wright
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    Galatians 2:20, 1 Corinthians 15:3, John 3:16
    The early Christian writers used some stunning expressions of delight and gratitude when they mentioned Jesus’s death. Think of Paul saying, “He loved me and gave himself for me” (Gal. 2:20), or “The ...

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    Martin H. Franzmann
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    2 Peter 1:20-21, 2 Timothy 3:16, Romans 10:17, Matthew 24:35, Isaiah 15:11, Colossians 1:15-16
    The book that was destined to remain the sacred book for millions of Christians for century upon century came into the church without fanfare, in a quiet, shuffling sort of way. Its history is not at ...

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    Søren Kierkegaard
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    The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minut...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one’s post as a child of God, living each day as if it were our last, but planning as ...

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    Ian Pitt-Watson
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    At the heart of it, preaching is the telling and retelling of Christ's story and our stories from creation to parousia. It is the remembering of the stories with a special kind of remembrance of w...

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    C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison
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    More than three-quarters of the uses of eucharisteo (thanksgiving) and charis (grace) in the New Testament occur in Paul’s writings. And, according to some scholars, Paul mentions thanksgiving more fr...

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    Richard Bauckham
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    The early church had no single answer to the question of the relevance of the Sabbath commandment to Christians. The churches of the New Testament period included a variety of views.

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    James I. Packer
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    If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that promp...

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    Jeremy Begbie
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    Luke 2:34-35 , Philippians 2:8, Isaiah 53:3-5, Hebrews 2:14-15, Isaiah 9:6 , Galatians 4:4-5 , Romans 6:23
    Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps the single most dangerous feature of our Church and culture-and the senti...

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    Samuel M. Zwemer
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    If the Cross of Christ is anything to the mind, it is surely everything – the most profound reality and the sublimest mystery. One comes to realize that literally all the wealth and glory of the gospe...

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    John Mark Terry
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    John 20:21-22, Acts 1:8, Acts 4:33, 1 Corinthians 2:4-5, Psalm 62:11-12
    We have the best materials, media, and methods, but we lack spiritual power. Christians of the apostolic era had none of our advantages; they didn't even have the New Testament. Still, they turned...
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