For Christians to influence the world with the truth of God's Word requires the recovery of the great Reformation doctrine of vocation. Christians are called to God's service not only in church professions but also in every secular calling. The task of restoring truth to the culture depends largely on our laypeople.

To bring back truth, on a practical level, the church must encourage Christians to be not merely consumers of culture but makers of culture. The church needs to cultivate Christian artists, musicians, novelists, filmmakers, journalists, attorneys, teachers, scientists, business executives, and the like, teaching its laypeople the sense in which every secular vocation-including, above all, the callings of husband, wife, and parent--is a sphere of Christian ministry, a way of serving God and neighbor that is grounded in God's truth. Christian laypeople must be encouraged to be leaders in their fields, rather than eager-to-please followers, working from the assumptions of their biblical worldview, not the vapid clichés of pop culture.

J. Gresham Machen

Mots clés christianity church doctrine reformation machen



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We try to transform each detainee from a young man who wants to die to a young man who wants to live. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef

Robert Lacey

Mots clés terrorism reformation



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He advocated that all who follow Jesus are priests, not just the official clergy. Much of what he said made sense, as did his kind manner. But why was he here now? Had this persecuted recluse emerged just to speak to me?

David Holdsworth

Mots clés kindness justice compassion-love radicalism priesthood reformation jesus-the-christ love-story peace-movement joyfulness recluse



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From generation to generation, America should never be the same country.

Bryant McGill

Mots clés transformation reformation societal-progress



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The Constitution itself, the DNA of the country, can be altered by the collective will of the people, making America a self-evolving and self-writing program.

Bryant McGill

Mots clés transformation reformation community-development



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Evangelical Christians need to notice..., that the Reformation said 'Scripture Alone' and not 'the Revelation of God in Christ Alone'. If you do not have the view of the Scriptures that the Reformers had, you really have no content in the word 'Christ' - and this is the modern drift in theology. Modern theology uses the word without content because 'Christ' is cut away from the Scriptures. The Reformation followed the teaching of Christ Himself in linking the revelation Christ gave of God to the revelation of the written Scriptures.

Francis A. Schaeffer

Mots clés scripture bible theology modern christ christians reformation evangelical



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To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely sensitive ecumenical conscience, is to stand against those who try to incubate a Reformation in the Muslim world.

Christopher Hitchens

Mots clés religion islam reformation salman-rushdie 1994



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We get called dishonoring for pointing out the garbage in the church, yet nobody ever seems to think it's dishonoring that somebody put the garbage there in the first place.

D.R. Silva

Mots clés christianity religion church revolution reformation



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If people think honoring pastors means doing everything they say, why don't they honor Jesus the same way?

D.R. Silva

Mots clés questions freedom christianity religion church jesus honor reformation



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In short, an astonishingly broad spectrum of theologies of justification existed in the later medieval period, encompassing practically every option that had not been specifically condemned as heretical by the Council of Carthage. In the absence of any definitive magisterial pronouncement concerning which of these options (or even what range of options) could be considered authentically catholic, it was left to each theologian to reach his own decision in this matter. A self-perpetuating doctrinal pluralism was thus an inevitability.



Mots clés christianity theology justification catholic-church reformation



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