10 Top Lines from Passion

Taken from Mike McKinley’s Passion: How Christ’s Final Day Changes Your Every Day.

1. ‘Adam said to God: “My will, not yours!” But Jesus said: “Even though it will cost me everything, let your will be done, not mine.”’ (page 21)

2. ‘Judas is a chilling reminder to us that you can’t rely on your past experiences as an indication of your current spiritual condition’ (p 30)

3. ‘The question isn’t whether we’re guilty: it’s how we deal with that guilt. Do we seek to shift it; seek to work it off; carry it till it crushes us; or give it to Jesus?’ (p 38)

4. ‘Finding God guilty of blasphemy is like a group of nine-year-olds in an art class finding Michelangelo guilty of crimes against art, and of producing fake copies of Michelangelo paintings… only infinitely worse.’ (p 50)

5. The reason that Jesus was not after a political kingdom was not because it was too big a thing for Him, but because it was far too small. The entire Roman empire couldn’t contain the kingdom that He did want to establish.’ (p 64)

6. ‘There is a cross beam firmly fixed on the shoulders of every human being on the planet. Simon of Cyrene just had the opportunity to have it made visible to him for a brief time.’ (p 93)

7. ‘God’s Son knew what we would turn out to be like, He knew all of our failures and sins and weaknesses; and He died for us anyway.’ (p 103)

8. ‘God is far more interested in the state of your soul than He is in delivering you from your present circumstances.’ (p 114)

9. “At different times and in different ways we will all have Joseph of Arimathea’s choice presented to us: will we risk standing with Jesus whatever the consequences, or will we play it safe?’ (p 134)

10. ‘For Christians, death may seem untimely, feel painful, appear tragic; but we can die peacefully as people who know we are going to be with the Lord, the Lord who hung in the darkness so that we can live in eternal light with Him.’ (p 135)

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