The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace is too ordinary, His judgment is too benign, His gospel is too easy, and His Christ… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
God's love is his holiness reaching out to sinners; grace is but the price that his love pays to his holiness; the cross is but its victory over sin and death; and faith is but the way in which we… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
