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enough light
Pascal … argued explicitly that there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough obscurity for those who don’t. For Pascal, God has arranged things this way because certainty is not our main need, just as ignorance is not our main problem. “God wishes to move the will rather than the mind. Perfect clarity would help the mind and harm the will.” Pascal thus emphasized that the…
waiting
Most of the biblical history consists of people waiting for God to do something. And often they waited in very dire circumstances that made the wait all the more difficult. They were held in the tension between the divine promise and the seeming absence of any implementation of that purpose. Matthew Jacoby, Deeper Places, page 92.
reverent skepticism
In our constant struggle to believe we are likely to overlook the simple fact that a bit of healthy disbelief I sometimes as needful as faith to the welfare of our souls. I go further and say that we would do well to cultivate a reverent skepticism. It will keep us out of a thousand bogs and quagmires where others who lack it sometimes find themselves. It is no sin to doubt something, but it may…
what makes a work christian
Preaching, caring for the flock, and equipping the saints can be profoundly secular. Listening to a child, designing a software package, and examining a balance sheet can be profoundly Christian. What makes a work Christian is faith, hope, and love. R. Paul Stevens, The Other Six Days, p. 248.
immerse in the secular world
To evangelize is to spread the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead according to the Scriptures, and that as the reigning Lord he now offers the forgiveness of sins and the liberating gift of the Spirit to all who repent and believe. Our Christians presence in the world is indispensable to evangelism, and so is that kind of dialogue whose purpose is to listen…
the church is a gathered community
Returning to a simplistic yet profoundly biblical understanding of the church as a gathered community is essential. The church should refrain from nostalgia for a past when its halls were packed and from condemning those who have moved for various reasons. Instead, it should view migration challenges through a missional lens, recognizing the numerous new and previously unseen mission…
everyone is a theologian
The New Testament presupposes a community in which every person is a theologian of application, trying to make sense out of his or her life in order to live for the praise of God’s glory: theology of, for, and by the people of God. R. Paul Stevens, The Other Six Days, p. 21.
truth without beauty is powerless
… in the modern world, truth without beauty is powerless and ineffectual … [Hans Urs] von Balthasar claimed that goodness apart from beauty becomes unstable and arbitrary. David Bentley Henry has likewise urged that the Christian gospel addresses the world not primarily as a series of arguments but as a story involving a unique interrelation of truth and beauty: “Making its appeal first to the…
not just the glamorous
The Great Commission is not just the glamorous “far, far away,” but the humdrum local outreach in the streets and fields where the believers live, and also to the difficult sections of the community nearby that we would normally seek to avoid. Jesus was not giving a range of alternatives from which we could choose, even if his calling is to a specific location, whether local or afar. Patrick…
church is like manure
Evangelist Luis Palau says, “The church is like manure. Pile it up and it stinks up the neighborhood; spread it out and it enriches the world.” Eric Swanson studies healthy churches, and without exception they are externally focused: their goal is to make a significant and sustainable difference in the lives of people around them. Luis Palau, quoted byDavid Murrow, Why Men Hate Going to Church,…
overcome desire with desire
We always follow the strongest desire we have in any moment. The way to escape a destructive desire is not to try to deny the desire. This never works. We can overcome one desire only with another greater desire. Where one desire clashes with another, the greater desire will turn the lesser desire into repulsion precisely because it threatens the greater desire. Matthew Jacoby, Deeper Places,…
flight path of the soul
The only thing we must do in life is the will of God. Given that we were created in accordance with God’s will, this is as natural to the soul as flying is to a bird or swimming is to a fish. Far from being onerous, the doing of God’s will is actually the very means by which we experience the joy of life. It is the flight path of the soul. And what is more, it is also beautifully simple. God’s…
humanism is christianity in secular form
Humanism, [John Gray] argues, has actually been taken captive by the Christianity that came before it. Humanism is simply Christianity in a secular form, which has replaced the idea of God’s providence with that of progress. He writes:Christians understood history as a story of sin and redemption. Humanism is the transformation of this Christian doctrine of salvation into a project of universal…
no such thing as a closed country
We should pray about mission until it becomes a priority! We may not personally be able to take the good news abroad, but we can all pray in such a way that regions abroad are affected… Prayer needs no passport, visa, or work permit. There is no such thing as a ‘closed country’ as far as prayer is concerned… Much of the history of mission could be written in terms of God moving in response to…
time-proven formula for failure
The most common mistake made by churches that are eager to implement eldership is to appoint biblically unqualified men. Because there is always a need for more shepherds, it is tempting to allow unqualified, unprepared men to assume leadership in the church. This is, however, a time-proven formula for failure. A biblical eldership requires biblically qualified elders. Alexander Strauch,…
prayer is the ministry
The ministry of the children of God is not doing but praying, not strategizing, but prostate before God seeking His will, not clever stratagems for manipulating people and events, but trusting in God who moves in the ears of even His most implacable enemies. Through prayer, Nebuchadnezzar and today’s dictators get converted, Manasseh and today’s persecutors repent, and kingdoms of Babylon and…
from everywhere to everywhere
Today, nearly 70 percent of the world’s missions force is from the majority or non-Western world. The gospel is going forth from everywhere to everywhere. Through this global missions force, evangelical Chrstianity is the fastest growing religion in the world today. Michael Oh, Finish the Mission, p. 87.