Julie Halitzka

the God we worship here is the God of costly love. ‘ The love of Christ,’ Paul wrote, ‘overwhelms us, when we consider that one died for all; and his purpose in dying was that those who live should live no more for themselves, but for him who for their sake died and was raised.’ …The true God is the one who became human and died and rose again in order to offer a new way of being human, a way of worship and love. Christ died, says Paul, so that we might embody the saving faithfulness of God: ‘It is all God’s work.’ — N.T. Wright, For All God’s Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church