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True courage is not the absence of fear – but the willingness to proceed in spite of it.
Unknown Author
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True courage is not the absence of fear – but the willingness to proceed in spite of it.
Unknown Author
Ole Hallesby
Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
Ole Hallesby
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Christ was placed midmost in the world’s history; and in that central position He towers like some vast mountain to heaven – the farther slope stretching backward toward the creation, the hither slope toward the consummation of all things. The ages before look to Him with prophetic gaze; the ages since behold Him by historic faith; by both He is seen in common as the brightness of the Father’s glory, and the unspeakable gift of God to the race.
Unknown Author
Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Crossway, 2000, p. 200.
A healthy church has a pervasive concern with church growth – not simply growing numbers but growing members. A church full of growing Christians is the kind of church growth I want as a pastor. Some today seem to think that one can be a “baby Christian” for a whole lifetime. Growth is seen to be an optional extra for particularly zealous disciples. But be very careful about taking that line of thought. Growth is a sign of life. Growing trees are living trees, and growing animals are living animals. When something stops growing, it dies.
Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Crossway, 2000, p. 200.
Jim Elliff
What right do we have to make God out to be Someone other than He really is in order to make people like Him more? Honor God by declaring the truth about Him.
Jim Elliff
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Catéchisme Abrégé de Westminster
Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of true sense of his sin [intellectual aspect], and appreciation of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of sin [emotional aspect], turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavor after, new obedience [volitional aspect].
Westminster Shorter Catechism.
La vie chrétienne ne consiste pas dans l'épanouissement du moi mais dans l'accomplissement de la volonté de Dieu et la mise en évidence par notre vie de sa gloire à lui.
Si pour qu'il croisse, il faut que je diminue; alors que va-t-il arriver si je vise ma propre croissance, mon propre succès ?
Quand la sémantique du succès personnel ou du succès de l'église occupe la place centrale des sermons et qualifie la raison d'être des différents services de l'église, c'est que le terrain de l'Evangile a été abandonné pour glisser dans celui des ambitions charnelles déguisées en habits religieux. Ce n'est donc plus Christ qui règne mais l'homme."
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La discipline de l'église est un outil puissant d'évangélisation. Les gens remarquent quand nos vies sont différentes, surtout quand il y a toute une communauté de personnes dont les vies sont différentes - non pas des personnes dont les vies sont parfaites, mais des personnes dont les vies sont marquées par un effort sincère d'aimer Dieu et de s'aimer les uns les autres. Lorsque les églises sont perçues comme se conformant au monde, cela rend notre tâche d'évangélisation d'autant plus difficile. Comme l'a dit un jour Nigel Lee de English InterVarsity, nous devenons tellement semblables aux non-croyants qu'ils n'ont aucune question à nous poser. Puissions-nous vivre de telle sorte que les gens soient rendus curieux de manière constructive.
Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Crossway, 2000, p. 176.
Church discipline is a powerful tool in evangelism. People notice when our lives are different, especially when there’s a whole community of people whose lives are different- not people whose lives are perfect, but whose lives are marked by genuinely trying to love God and love one another. When churches are seen as conforming to the world, it makes our evangelistic task all the more difficult. As Nigel Lee of English InterVarsity once said, we become so like the unbelievers they have no questions they want to ask us. May we so live that people are made constructively curious.
Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Crossway, 2000, p. 176.
Charles Swindoll, The Bride, Zondervan, 1994.
Our challenge is to stay up with the time, to serve our generation, yet in no way alter the truths of His Word. Styles and methods change and must be kept up to date. But truth? It is timeless. Not subject to change… We are to be willing to leave the familiar without disturbing the essentials. To minister effectively the church must wake up to what changes…and what doesn’t… The church that sits around frowning at the future, doing little more than polishing yesterday’s apples, will become a church lacking in relevance and excitement. At the same time, the church that softens its stand theologically and alters Scripture to fit the future’s style, will lose its power.
Charles Swindoll, The Bride, Zondervan,1994.
ROGER STEER
UNE BONNE NOUVELLE POUR LE MONDE : L'HISTOIRE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ BIBLIQUE, 2004
The Bible is a book about God the heavenly Father, the author of everything that is good and beautiful and true, and the mysterious relationship he has with his children. As such, it never wanders far from life’s greatest interests and problems.
ROGER STEER
GOOD NEWS FOR THE WORLD: THE STORY OF THE BIBLE SOCIETY, 2004
Thabiti Anyabwile
The church is that assembly of people who belong to the Lord, who are gathered together for Him. The gospel of Jesus Christ calls individuals out of the world of sin and death and into eternal light and life; it takes people who were no people and turns them into a special people for God (1 Peter 2:9-10). That’s what the church is. It’s the assembly of people living under the rule of Jesus and committed to each other in the faith.
Thabiti Anyabwile
John Piper
Love is motivated by the joy of sharing our fullness, but the works of the flesh are motivated by the desire to fill our emptiness… [The flesh is] man’s ego which feels a deep emptiness and uses the means within its own power to fill that emptiness. If it is religious, it may use law; if it is irreligious, it may use booze… [Yet] when God frees us from guilt and fear and greed and fills us with His all-satisfying presence, the only motive left is the joy of sharing our fullness.
John Piper
William Gurnall
Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.
William Gurnall
Daniel Woillez, Les enseignements : Jésus-Christ ressuscité
C.S. Lewis
We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed.
C.S. Lewis
Hannah More
The soul on earth is an immortal guest, compelled to starve at an unreal feast; a pilgrim panting for the rest to come; an exile, anxious for his native home.
Hannah More