Showing posts with label fatherhood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fatherhood. Show all posts

Tuesday, 22 January 2008

Fatherhood of God

I have to chase up a Jim Packer quote. It's from Knowing God, but I haven't got the book with me. Here it is:

If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God’s child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all. For everything that Christ taught, everything that makes the New Testament new, and better than the Old, everything that is distinctively Christian as opposed to merely Jewish, is summed up in the knowledge of the Fatherhood of God. ‘Father’ is the Christian name for God.


Wonderful quote though, isn't it? If any of you blog readers has this book sitting at home and can give me page number for the quote and publication details of the book, I'll post you a gift on facebook!