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My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc.

D. A. Carson

Christian worship is new covenant worship; it is gospel-inspired worship; it is Christ-centered worship; it is cross-focused worship.
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Christian Inspired Worship
So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it’s the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn’t interested in any of those kinds of things.
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Awkward People Writing
It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father’s will-and it was his love for sinners like me.
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Father Jesus Unqualified
Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.
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Sex Timing World
For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer my readers except my conviction that when pain is to be borne.
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Love Pain Teaching
Love the church because Jesus loves it.
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Church Jesus Love
Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King Messiah but pays tribute; He is called the devil but casts out demons; He dies the death of a sinner but comes to save His people from their sins;
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Jesus Kings People
A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Disaster Persons Waiting
The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God’s approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.
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Approval Prayer Reputation
Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
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Blessing Prayer Technique
God’s love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.
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Bigs God Love World
Study Bibles tend to circulate widely, so they play a disproportionate role in helping Christians and others understand holy Scripture.
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Christian Holy Play Scripture Two
They revere Scripture, not because Scripture becomes an idol, but because it discloses God who is especially come after us in salvation and redemption through the person of his son, his cross, his resurrection, the full sweep of the gospel.
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Cross Disclose God Redemption
Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.
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Absolutism Heroic May
When Christians speak of the authority of Scripture, because Christians believe that this word, even though it’s mediated through many different human authors.
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Believe Christian Mistake
We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
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Effective Greatest Pain Teaching

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My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc.

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