“In fact, when we listen to the church today, at least in the West, we are often left with impression that Christianity actually has very little to do with truth. Christianity is only about feeling better about ourselves, about leaping… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant. — David F. Wells Copy Share
“Descartes argued “I think, therefore I am,” and people after Freud translated that into the modern vernacular by saying, “I feel, therefore I am… — David F. Wells Copy Share
Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks… — David F. Wells Copy Share
Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything… — David F. Wells Copy Share
“As Jonathan Edwards observed a long time ago, we act on our strongest motive. If our strongest motive, our deepest desire, is to know… — David F. Wells Copy Share
“Our world is being shaken to its very foundations. Instead of offering great thoughts about God, the meaning of reality, and the gospel, there… — David F. Wells Copy Share
What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just… — David F. Wells Copy Share
“In fact, when we listen to the church today, at least in the West, we are often left with impression that Christianity actually has… — David F. Wells Copy Share
Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes. — David F. Wells Copy Share
The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is hard to… — David F. Wells Copy Share
Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined… — David F. Wells Copy Share
God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil. — David F. Wells Copy Share
There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the evangelical world,… — David F. Wells Copy Share
What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached? — David F. Wells Copy Share
We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that… — David F. Wells Copy Share
