Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing . — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The infallibility and inerrancy of biblical teaching does not, however, guarantee the infallibility and inerrancy of any interpretation or interpreter of that… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
God's Word is not presented in Scripture in the form of a theological system, but it admits of being stated in that… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact,… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Always and everywhere the servants of Christ are under orders to evangelize — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time... — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit,… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Moreover, the whole purpose of God's mighty acts is to bring man to know Him by faith; and Scripture knows no foundation… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it -… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God? — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
