3 Quotes by Jonathan Leeman

I think it would be better to say that some churches have veered too far towards what they think is holiness, while other churches have veered too far to what they think is love. If a church has abandoned holiness, it has abandoned love, and if it has abandoned love, it has abandoned holiness. Holiness and love are mutually implicating and work in concert, not it opposition.

There is more political power in the gospel and in being the church than there is in electing a president, installing a Supreme Court justice, or even changing a constitution.

I remember bragging to one of my pastors, Thabiti, that I didn’t think of my good friend Christopher as black. Thabiti challenged me: “Huh, that’s interesting, because Christopher certainly experiences life as a black man in America. And you’ve never asked him about that? You must not be a very good friend.” Ouch. But yes, that makes sense.