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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

[Job’s three friends] simply assumed that sin and suffering are always inexorably bound together in a cause/effect relationship. Whenever and wherever there is one, there is the other. Notwithstanding what they knew to be true about Job’s character, they refused to budge. They refused to allow the possibility that on occasion, as mysterious as it might seem, a righteous man might suffer greatly.
Sam Storms

What scares me is the anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking philosophy that has spilled over into the church. This philosophy tends to romanticize the faith, making the local church into an experience center... Their concept of “church” is that they are spiritual consumers and that the church’s job is to meet their 'felt needs.”
Bill Hull