Faith Progression Quotes

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute ... it may be the most important contribution that we can make.

What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus.

When a Christian stops growing, help is needed. If you are the same Christian you were a few months ago, be careful.

there are the non-believers, make believers and true believers!

Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

Whether this was explicitly taught or implicitly caught, I grew up with the impression that when it comes to the Christian life, justification was step one and sanctification was step two and that once we get to step two there's no reason to revisit step one.