Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me.
That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind...
Stichwörter: reason nature mankind danger laziness cowardice competence tutelage pastor physician
The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.
Francis ChanStichwörter: christianity god jesus wants needs pastor
We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because
they need it--because we need it. I'm sure you felt much better after forgiving your son.
Stichwörter: forgiveness pastor bree-despain dark-divine
One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them to be pastors. They are taught critical approaches to Scripture, they learn about the discrepancies and contradictions, they discover all sorts of historical errors and mistakes, they come to realize that it is difficult to know whether Moses existed or what Jesus actually said and did, they find that there are other books that were at one time considered canonical but that ultimately did not become part of Scripture (for example, other Gospels and Apocalypses), they come to recognize that a good number of the books of the Bible are pseudonymous (for example, written in the name of an apostle by someone else), that in fact we don't have the original copies of any of the biblical books but only copies made centuries later, all of which have been altered. They learn all of this, and yet when they enter church ministry they appear to put it back on the shelf. For reasons I will explore in the conclusion, pastors are, as a rule, reluctant to teach what they learned about the Bible in seminary.
Bart D. EhrmanStichwörter: christianity god religion church pastor ministry seminary
The IMPOSSIBLE is ONLY relevant to those who NEVER attempt it…otherwise it is ABSTACT and MEANINGLESS
John Paul WarrenStichwörter: church motivation leadership pastor john-warren pastor-john-paul-warren voice-of-the-nations church-planting
Be a FRIEND and stop worrying about having any
John Paul WarrenStichwörter: men church leadership pastor john-paul-warren pastor-john-paul-warren
I have learned that the harder you fall…the higher you bounce!
John Paul WarrenStichwörter: motivational inspirational leadership pastors pastor crusades john-paul pastor-john-paul-warren central-christian-church conferences pastor-john-warren sozo sozo-life eeaders john-paul-warre
I refuse to live life with unsettled differences”.
John Paul WarrenStichwörter: forgiveness motivation leadership pastor john-paul-warren sozo-life austin-texas the-refuge-austin
The message of the gospel speaks loudest when people can see Christ in us.
Jerry KinardStichwörter: pastor house-church
Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.
Wayne CordeiroStichwörter: solitude refuge isolation jesus-christ pastor pastoral-ministry pastoral
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