"What is to be gained if we are……" — David F. Wells
"What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?"
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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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The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is…
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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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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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