Jesus On The Mainline Quotes

Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can at least convert them to the boggiest of soft-left clichés, on the grounds that if Jesus were alive today he'd most likely be a gay Anglican bishop in a committed relationship driving around in an environmentally friendly car with an "Arms are for Hugging" sticker on the way to an interfaith dialogue with a Wiccan and a couple of Wahhabi imams. ~ Mark Steyn

There is no cancer, no sickness, no sin, no reversal of fortunes, no curse, no heartache - nothing - that's greater than Jesus. Jesus heals. Jesus restores. Jesus brings life. ~ Louie Giglio

I live in Jesus, on Jesus, with Jesus, and soon hope to be perfectly conformed to His likeness. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Who is Jesus to me? Jesus is the Word made Flesh. Jesus is the Bread of Life. Jesus is the Victim offered for our sins on the cross. Jesus is the sacrifice offered at holy Mass for the sins of the world and for mine. Jesus is the Word - to be spoken. Jesus is the Truth - to be told. Jesus is the Way - to be walked. Jesus is the Light - to be lit. Jesus is the Life - to be lived. Jesus is the Love - to be loved ~ Mother Teresa

Jesus is not a white, middle-class Republican. Jesus is not a Democrat, a Libertarian, a Marxist, or a Socialist. Jesus is not a Baptist, a Catholic, a Lutheran, or a Buddhist. Jesus isn't even a Christian. Jesus Christ is Lord. ~ Ronnie McBrayer

Live like Jesus, pray like Jesus, love like Jesus, serve like Jesus but don't hand yourself over to the enemy like Him. ~ Ikechukwu Izuakor

Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves. ~ Timothy Keller

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so? ~ Karl Barth

Facts about Jesus that I told Kimberly to annoy her
1. Jesus was Jewish
2. Jesus was a socialist
3. Jesus was a refugee
4. Jesus was anti-death penalty
5. Jesus was anti-school prayer (Matthew 6:5)
6. Jesus was opposed to the accumulation of wealth
7. Jesus was silent on the issues of homosexuality and gay marriage
8. Jesus was a brown-skinned Middle Easterner who wore sandals to the dinner table
9. Jesus was a friend to prostitutes ~ Matthew Dicks

If you want to know what Jesus meant by what Jesus said, pay attention to that Jesus did. ~ Andy Stanley

I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus. ~ Mother Teresa

Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus. ~ John Stott

Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care. ~ Max Lucado

One of the most startling discoveries of my life was the realization that the Jesus that I love, the Jesus who died for me on Calvary, that Jesus, is waiting, mystically and wonderfully, in every person I meet. I find Jesus everywhere. ~ Tony Campolo

Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world ... ~ Bono

Seeing Jesus prolongs your life. Seeing Jesus keeps you healthy. Seeing Jesus makes you strong. ~ Paul Silway

There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian community, but also in what transpires in mainline denominations. ~ Tony Campolo

Now let us gather into one bouquet, from the King's garden, these seven fragrant flowers: Jesus the Son of God; Jesus our sin-bearer; Jesus the giver of eternal life; Jesus the keeper of our undying souls; Jesus the hearer of our prayers; Jesus the chastener who can turn crosses into crowns; and Jesus the wonder-worker who changes us into eternal likeness unto Himself! These flowers will keep sweet till heaven dawns. ~ Theodore L. Cuyler

Faith in Jesus must be personal but it cannot be private. ~ Rick Warren

Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus. ~ Ed Stetzer

Followership starts with Jesus, stays with Jesus, goes with Jesus, and ends with Jesus. ~ Leonard Sweet

Worship of Jesus is rather harmless and risk-free; actually following Jesus changes everything. ~ Richard Rohr

If you run unit tests and a continuous integration system on your code's mainline, then you must also arrange to run these on the release branch, for as long as the branch is alive. ~ Anonymous

Whatever it is you ask for in prayer, believing you have received it, it shall be yours. ~ Jesus

Modern ecumenism rightly began in mission, but then lapsed into a merger mentality, then defensive bureaucracy, and finally into unrepresentative forms of extreme politicization. ~ Thomas C. Oden

Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity. ~ Robert H. Schuller

The Republicans didn't want the government to run your life, because Jesus should. That was really part of their thing: less government, more Jesus. Now it's like, how about more government and Jesus? ~ Trey Parker

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18. ~ Zola Jesus

If Jesus heals instantly, praise Him. If Jesus heals gradually, trust Him. When Jesus heals ultimately, you will understand. ~ Max Lucado

If Jesus is on Tim Curran's side and Occy is Jesus, who gets to win? ~ Cintra Wilson

Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office ... that's what Jesus would do. ~ Mike Huckabee

Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine. ~ Truman Capote

Jesus Christ was the ultimate influencer. My life has been influenced by Jesus more than anyone else. ~ Johnny Hunt

There are so many religions and each one has its different ways of following God. I follow Christ:
Jesus is my God,
Jesus is my Spouse,
Jesus is my Life,
Jesus is my only Love,
Jesus is my All in All;
Jesus is my Everything. ~ Mother Teresa

Jesus loves me, this I know ... ~ Anna Bartlett Warner

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. ~ George Whitefield

I want to thank Jesus, and by Jesus I mean Jesus Hernandez, my bodyguard ~ Will Ferrell

Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand. ~ S.D. Gordon

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us. ~ R.C. Sproul

Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Without Jesus they were the great priests of the temple; with Jesus suddenly they were nobodies. In the presence of Jesus there was God himself and all the priests felt their glory had been taken away. ~ Rajneesh

I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus' love, not Jesus' love by my circumstances. ~ Timothy Keller

Discover Whether Jesus Is For You Or Your Pastor's Jesus Or Your Friend's Jesus ... You Will See A Lot Of Miracles. ~ Cyc Jouzy

I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all my own, and then an incalculable number of others. ~ Alphonsus Liguori

The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love. To be a minister, we must walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus, and be like Jesus for a broken and dying world. ~ Heidi Baker

Jesus Christ said turn the other cheek. Unfortunately Luis Figo is not Jesus Christ. ~ Luiz Felipe Scolari

A moment with Jesus changed everything. ~ Judah Smith

Jesus loves the world, as do I. ~ Tyson Fury

As I wrote in Pastrix I, like any good middle-class mainline Protestant, tend to arrogantly look down my theological nose at talk of demon possession as superstitious snake-handling nonsense, as though it's the spiritual equivalent of a monster truck rally. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn't Jesus' fault. ~ Donald Miller

Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus. ~ J.C. Ryle

Can I go to heaven without truly and faithfully loving Jesus? ~ Francis Chan

Christlikeness is possible, but not by merely working with Jesus or simply imitating his example. Only by knowing our position in Jesus can we begin to live like Jesus. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone. ~ Pope Benedict XVI

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. ~ John Lennon

If Jesus can live in you and you are no different than the world around you, something got short circuited because Jesus makes a difference. ~ David Jeremiah

All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ. ~ Matt Chandler

The best 'apologia' (defense) of Jesus Following is your life ...not talking religion!" http://diigo.com/0odk2 ~ gfp '42© ~ Gary F. Patton

Jesus doesn't care if you feel guilty. Jesus wants you to change. ~ Sarah Miles

It hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinced the people that he had risen from the dead was not the absence of his corpse but his living presence. And so it has been ever since. ~ Frederick Buechner

I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if a person does this, they will realize that the Jesus they learned about in Sunday school or the Jesus they hear jokes about or the skinny, Gandhi Jesus that exists in their imaginations isn't anything like the real Jesus at all. ~ Donald Miller

But I know, with all the certainty of my being, that Jesus has no interest in my doing this. To just say, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, I'm your biggest fan," causes him to stare at his watch, tap his feet, and order a double Glenlivet on the rocks with a twist. Fandom is of no interest to Jesus. What matters to him is the authentic following of a disciple. We all settle for saying, "Jesus," but Jesus wants us to be in the world who he is. ~ Gregory Boyle

Jesus always existed. At the same time Jesus was begotten (made human). This is the perplexing and elusive mystic core of Christian faith. ~ Amos Smith

The only thing that's going to save you is that saving blood of Jesus Christ. ~ Katherine Albrecht

Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked. ~ Peter Kreeft

Gay marriage within mainline denominations is gaining traction. Skewed pastors and even the government can't trump the Bible on this issue. Pastors: stand! ~ Steve Camp

When Jesus Christ forgives you of sin, He never brings it back up. ~ Johnny Hunt

Jesus is our Advocate before God. ~ Charles Stanley

What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ. ~ George Washington

For Jesus Christ I am prepared to suffer still more. ~ Maximilian Kolbe

Only by being both deity and humanity could Jesus Christ bridge the gap between where God is. ~ David Jeremiah

There is not one harsher, more sure-fire way to fail than that of the man who tries to be like Jesus without submitting to Jesus. ~ Criss Jami

For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging "preventative" wars. Jesus would not be withholding medicine from people who could not afford it. Jesus would not cast stones at people of races, sexual orientatons, or genders other than His own. Jesus would not condone the failing, viperous, scandalplagued hierarchy of some churches. Jesus would welcome everyone to his his table. He would love them, and he would find peace. ~ David Levithan

No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. ~ J.C. Ryle

We have branded Jesus beyond recognition. Church has become a business. Jesus is our marketing scheme. We create bookstores, T-shirts, bracelets, bumper stickers, and board games all in the name of Jesus. ~ Jefferson Bethke

We can trust the Bible because it points us to the most important events in human history: the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. ~ Billy Graham

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

There's no greater model, in my view, than Jesus Christ. ~ Bill Maher

Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises. ~ Mother Teresa

To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where. ~ Barbara Brown Taylor

If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus. ~ Peter Kreeft

No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus. ~ Timothy Keller

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The key question in order to change you is not 'What would Jesus do?' but "What has Jesus done for you?" ~ Timothy Keller

It's absolutely absurd to say you are a disciple of Jesus Christ yet not bear the fruit of Jesus Christ. ~ Paul Washer

Any who love Jesus will love others much more. ~ Mike Bickle

Come to Jesus. Come to Jesus. ~ Adrian Rogers

Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake. ~ Thomas A Kempis

You should let Jesus in your heart.' 'Jesus is in every heart, brother.' 'Are you serious?' 'Of course. I love that guy. Who doesn't?' 'A lot of people don't,' he laughed. 'Some people hate Jesus.' 'No. Brilliant mind, loving heart, significant penance: Jesus was the real deal. They might know Christians they don't like, but nobody hates Jesus. ~ Gregory David Roberts

I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus. ~ John Clayton

I'm Jesus Christ, whether you want to accept it or not, I don't care. ~ Charles Manson

Jesus is the sanctuary every time we gather with other believers. We need that truth to soak into our hearts. ~ Lysa TerKeurst

Mentioning Jesus in your speech: Small government. Doing what Jesus asked: Big government. ~ Stephen Colbert

Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended ~ Brennan Manning

Salvation is a gift from God and comes through believing in Jesus and Jesus alone. ~ Paul Silway

Paul himself says that he was converted to a follower of Jesus because he had personally encountered the resurrected Jesus.12 So we have Jesus' resurrection attested by friend and foe alike, which is very significant. ~ Lee Strobel

The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience. ~ Nicky Gumbel

Jesus loves me! This I know
As He loved so long ago
Taking children on His knee
Saying, Let them come to Me. ~ Anna Bartlett Warner

The whole message of Jesus Christ is rejoicement. Jesus has said: Those who lose themselves will find themselves. It is to dissolve like a drop falls into the sea. The spiritual teacher is a death, but he is also a rebirth, a resurrection, a rejoicement. ~ Swami Dhyan Giten