#zinzendorf

[cithaerons]

Craig Atwood, Sleeping in the Arms of Christ: Sanctifying Sexuality in the Eighteenth-Century Moravian Church

[linkfinds]

♪ DOO DOO DOO DOO! ♩

[anoceanofprofundity]

Preach the Gospel, die, and be forgotten.

Nicolaus Zinzendorf (1700-1760)

[revel80r]

Aulhier ruhen die gebeine des unvergesslichen mannes Gottes #Zinzendorf (at Herrnhut)

[placeofdiscipleship]

He leads us on by paths we did not know; Upward He leads us, though our steps be slow, Though oft we faint and falter on the way, Though storms and darkness oft obscure the day; Yet when the clouds are gone, We know He leads us on. He leads us on through all the unquiet years; Past all our dreamland hopes, and doubts and fears, He guides our steps, through all the tangled maze Of losses, sorrows, and o’er clouded days; We know His will is done; And still He leads us on.

Nicholaus Ludwig Zinzendorf

[ainsains]

Count Zinzendorf advocated the idea of a personal relationship with God, rather than the formal churchgoing Lutheranism of the day... For him, faith was less about an intellectual assent to doctrines than about a personal, transforming encounter with God.

Bonhoeffer

[buggie-hagen]

While in Germany, ‪United Methodist bishops and others learned more about the relationship between Methodism's founder, John Wesley and the Moravians. Check out the story and learn where Wesley's "heart was strangely warmed."

I remember bits of this when I was confirmed in the United Methodist Church as a senior in high school. 

[moravianmusicfoundation]

"Let our mutual love be glowing; thus the world will plainly see that we, as on one stem growing, living branches are in thee."

- Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf (trans. from German)