quotes #1

so the quote section on facebook is dumb, and wont let me post all my favorite quotes. here i will be posting my favorites from the book "Our Legacy" by John Hannah. check back for more!

"The very community that historically has been deeply interested in transcendent, timeless truth seems intent upon focusing on the merely private, personal, and temporal. If I may be so blunt, the church has lost its soul."
- John Hannah in "Our Legacy"

"The evangelical church is on the brink of becoming another of the many social, do-good agencies whose purpose has to do with helping people to more fully enjoy this life while neglecting the implications of eternity."
- John Hannah in "Our Legacy"

"I say the church will live and flourish in the new era, as it has in every other, because its origins and power are not of this world but from heaven."
- John Hannah in "Our Legacy"

"Theology is made in history; it is the result of study of the revelation of God. It is a human endeavor by fallible people who engage all their intellectual strength and Spirit-inspired ability to understand an infallible book with the sure promise that the Spirit will lead us into 'all truth'."
- John Hannah in "Our Legacy"

"In essence, the Old Testament era is one of anticipation of the coming of the vaguely explained deliverer, shadows that gradually take on substance."
- John Hannah in "Our Legacy"