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Russell D. Moore

Russell D. Moore is an American evangelical theologian, ethicist, and preacher. He is currently president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Moore previously served at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, one of six seminaries of the SBC, as dean of the School of Theology, senior vice president for academic administration, and as professor of Christian theology and ethics.

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The world of nominal, cultural Christianity that took the American dream and added Jesus to it in order to say, 'you can have everything you ever wanted and Heaven too,' is soon to be gone. Good riddance.

Christianity, Dream, Jesus, Order, Riddance

An 'almost gospel' doesn't raise a corpse.

Corpse, Corpses, Gospel, Raise, Raises

The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.

Church, Foundation, Influencers, Prophets, Rocks

For too long, we’ve called unbelievers to “invite Jesus into your life. ” Jesus doesn’t want to be in your life. Your life is a wreck. Jesus calls you into his life. And his life isn’t boring or purposeless or static. It’s wild and exhilarating and unpredictable.

Boring, Christian, Life, Long, Religious, Unbelievers

Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful legacy and past. I think there are some Southerners, black and white, who feel as though the rest of the country looks down on the South as uneducated and backward. And for some people, that was a symbol of defiance against that.

Black And White, Country, Division, Southerners, Thinking, Though

I heard someone say that concern over the [Confederate] Flag is sensitivity to micro-aggressions, to which my response is to say that kidnapping and enslaving people, breaking up families, terrorizing families, if that's not a macro-aggression, I don't know what is.

Confederate, Enslaving, Flags, People, Say, Terrorizing

I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.

Past, Remember, See, Think, Thinking

When my sons arrived in the family, their legal status was not ambiguous at all. They were our kids. But their wants and affections were still atrophied by a year in the orphanage. They didn't know that flies on their faces were bad. They didn't know that a strange man feeding them their first scary gulps of solid food wasn't a torturer. Life in the cribs alone must have seemed to them like freedom. That's what I was missing about the biblical doctrine of adoption. Sure it's glorious in the long run. But it sure seems like hell in the short run.

Fear, Kids, Legal, Like, Running, Seemed

Ultimately, the transgender question is about more than just sex. It's about what it means to be human.

Mean, Sex, Transgender, Ultimately

The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.

Biblical, Fallen, Fallen World, Power, Progress

I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history.

Believe, God, Looks, Recognize, Sinners, Thinking

Before we're Americans, we're Christians. And so we have to be informed by a certain moral sense, which means that we need to speak up for moral principle and for gospel principle regardless of who that offends.

Americans, Christian, Christians, Mean, Principles, Regardless

Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.

Cowardice, Expense, Moral, Vulnerable, Wrong

Charleston was where America split apart in 1861. Maybe it's where America comes together in 2015.

America, Apart, Charleston, Maybe, Splits, Together

The assumption that the larger culture agrees with Christians on values issues led to evangelicals' minimizing the theologically distinctive aspects of Christian witness. It also set up evangelicals to be disappointed when the culture did not turn out the way many expected it to turn out. So our response ought to be that we are always, in every culture, strangers in exile.

Christian, Culture, Distinctive, Expected, Issues

When we adopt—and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communities—we’re picturing something that’s true about our God. We, like Jesus, see what our Father is doing and do likewise (John 5:19). And what our Father is doing, it turns out, is fighting for orphans, making them sons and daughters.

Daughter, Daughters, Father, Jesus, John, Sons

We have to be the people who stand up and say look, vigilance is good and prudence is good. But a kind of irrational fear that leads itself to demagogic rhetoric is something that we have to say no - no, we're not going to go there.

Good, Irrational Fear, Kind, Looks, People

Conservative evangelicals don't want government support for our faith, because we believe God created all consciences free and a state-coerced act of worship isn't acceptable to God. Moreover, we believe the gospel isn't in need of state endorsement or assistance. Wall Street may need government bailouts but the Damascus Road never does.

Acceptable, Assistance, Believe, Created, Government, Wall