"The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today……" — David F. Wells
"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 is too common."
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David F. Wells
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13 Quotes by David F. Wells
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God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to…
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There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state…
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What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but…
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Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the…
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Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil…
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God's love is his holiness reaching out to sinners; grace is but the price that his love pays to his…
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What we see at the cross is the white-hot revelation of the character of God, of his love providing the…
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We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for…
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In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly…
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What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch…
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Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble"…
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The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its…
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A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.
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The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really…
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When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is…
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To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success
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the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic…
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So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In…
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I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be…
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Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o’clock in the morning with a meat…
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a…
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New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once…
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The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.
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