49 quotes found
“It's no fun to think about infinity and no cinche to write about it. Again, it helps to look for some human link.”
“Do I not well deserve to be turned into hell, if the scorns and threats of blinded men, if the fear of silly, rotten earth, can drive me thither (588)?”
“I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.”
“Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.”
“Ive heard it said many times when talking about going to heaven, You cant take it with you. Its true that you cannot take with you your house, car, money, or other things you have valued here on ea...”
“What the gods are supposed to be, what the priests are commissioned to say, is not a sensational secret like what those running messengers of the Gospel had to say. Nobody else except those messeng...”
“If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the Divine. It must be displayed publicly.”
“If a sight of Christ's outward glory might give a rational assurance of His divinity, why might not an apprehension of He is spiritual glory do so too?”
“Have you ever wondered what it feels like to have a love for the lost? This is a term we use as part of our Christian jargon. Many believers search their hearts in condemnation, looking for the arr...”
“On an individual and corporate level the church is learning to love and accept people where they are at on their journey along with providing opportunities and experiences for them to engage relati...”
“God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didnt just happen to Him. He chose it as the way to create and perfect the church. Now ...”
“If we do not question well then those who follow behind will almost certainly question badly. And if we are not confidently proclaiming the shape of our faith, then our faith will be of little use ...”
“Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging ...”
“William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials ...”
“Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with Sorry, I dont do books? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with Sorry, I dont do...”
“Facebook has more than 1 billion members, which by population makes it the third largest country in the worldsomewhere between India and the United States. Whos sending missionaries to that country...”
“The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher t...”
“False conversions are a wart on the face of Christian evangelism.”
“Faith in Christ leaped from person to person like some divine epidemic, not of disease but of spiritual health.”
“God has made relationships His chosen delivery system for the gospel of hope.”
