"Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission,……" — Roland Allen
"Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit."
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Roland Allen
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19 Quotes by Roland Allen
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In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their…
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Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.
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There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at…
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We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.
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What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but…
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We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to…
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The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the…
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I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use…
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The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work.
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The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its elements is a very simple thing...What is necessary is faith. What…
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Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I…
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If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the…
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