39 Quotes by Gregory A. Boyd

If we have the potential to oppress or slay millions, it’s because we also have the potential to liberate and love millions.

The central mark of a maturing Christian, and of a maturing congregation, is that they increasingly love others as Christ loves them.

Jesus never allowed himself to be defined by the political conflicts of his day, and neither should we.

With reckless abandon, therefore, we are to manifest God’s unconditional love by ascribing unsurpassable worth to all people at all times in all conditions.

We are to derive worth from God alone and to love without judgment and without conditions on the basis of the unsurpassable fullness of life we get from God. Our only job is to love, not judge.

What kind of holiness does the Western Church manifest today? To answer this, we need only ask: Are the prostitutes and tax collectors of our day attracted to us or repelled by us?

Jesus completely abolishes all ordinary ideas and expectations people have of a Supreme Being.

The result is that it has become humanly impossible for many around the globe to hear the good news as good. Instead, because of its kingdom-of-the-world associations, they hear the gospel as bad news, as American news, exploitive capitalistic news, greedy news, violent news, and morally decadent news. They can’t see the beauty of the cross because everything the American flag represents to them is in the way.

In a community that gets life based on appearances, problems tend to be diagnosed in terms of how things appear.