“She had lost her faith while still managing to hang on to all the platitudes” (Evangellyfish, p. 104).
Bleeding Hands
“Godly authority remains recognizably authoritative, although it must be continually emphasized (in this sinful world) that this is an authority that must have a servant’s heart and bleeding hands” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 59).
One Point of Difference
“Johnny’s eyes were round, like a couple of trash can lids, only a different color” (Evangellyfish, p. 100).
Fullness and Headship
“Scripture teaches that headship involves ‘fullness’ . . . (Eph. 1:22-23). In Scripture, headship does not mean a stand-alone, autonomous authority. Headship is trinitarian, bestowing fullness from above and summoning fullness from below. The head fills the body, and the head is filled by the body” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 58).
Very Loosely Tied
“He could tell that Johnny was not really a highly trained logician, and would simply go as he was directed, as long as the suggested direction did not conflict with the tangled bundle of platitudes, loosely tied with string, that made up his worldview” (Evangellyfish, p. 100).
Either Way He Goes
“Obedience and disobedience on the part of a husband does not make him a head or not a head. He is a head regardless. But he can be an obedient head or disobedient head. He can be a head who tells the truth about Christ in his sacrificial love, or he can be a head …
Actual Experience
“The point of these stories had been pressed home to him by the kind of preachers who rolled up their shirtsleeves, threw their necktie over the right shoulder, and hopped around while they preached. Many Americans have complained of too many hellfire and damnation sermons in their past, but Bradford was one of the 112 …
True Gift
“The salvation that God is working into us is actually God Himself — God gives Himself in our salvation” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 56).
So to Speak
“And when the blind lead the blind, they both fall into a youth ministry” (Evangellyfish, p. 95).
Incoherent Heresy
“When we consider the three persons of the holy Trinity, we must not fall into the heretical mistake of thinking that, out of the three of them, Jesus is the humble one” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 55).