Quotes about chris
christian true-identity identity
When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity. John Stott
christian blessed purpose
The nations are not gathered in automatically. If God has promised to bless "all the families of the earth," he has promised to do so "through Abraham's seed" (Genesis 12:3, 22:18). Now we are Abraham's seed by faith, and the earth's families will be blessed only if we go to them with the gospel. That is God's plain purpose.
christian rights views
[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets itself against the social injustices which insult God the Creator, seeks to protect human beings from oppression and longs to liberate them… it protests against every authoritarian regime, whether of the left or of the right, which discriminates against minorities, denies people their civil rights, forbids the free expression of opinions or imprisons people for their views alone.
christian believe men
Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.
christian responsibility people
Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and stewardship. Did God make the world? Does he sustain it? Has he committed its resources to our care? His personal concern for his own creation should be sufficient to inspire us to be equally concerned.
christian pain exercise
The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.
christian jesus past
Faith, Hope & Love. Faith is directed towards God, love towards others (both within the Christian fellowship and beyond it) and hope towards the future, in particular, the glorious coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Similarly, faith rests of the past; love works in the present; hope looks to the future. Every Christian without exception is a believer, a lover and a hoper. Faith, hope and love are three sure evidences of regeneration by the Holy Spirit.
christian holiness and-love
Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.
christian father worry
A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence that God is our Father, that even permitted suffering is within the orbit of His care.
christian water baptism
Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience.
christian jesus believe
Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique.
christian focus doe
No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.
christ ifs
The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached.
christian jesus believe
The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.
christian tears truth-is
The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.
christian responsibility impossible
Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.
christian jesus secret
The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ
christian jesus doe
Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.
christian focus community
The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.
christian sacrifice self
Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.
christian humility pride
At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.
christian clueless enlightenment
Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.
christian hazards discouragement
The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.
christian jesus vision
Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus.
christian mature neglect
Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.
christian scripture impossible
It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.
christian conservative should
Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
christian decision christ
Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.
christian humble hands
The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.
christian brother father
The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our Father but every other Christian believer in the world, whatever his nation or denomination, has become our brother or sister in Christ. But it is no good supposing that membership of the universal Church of Christ is enough; we must belong to some local branch of it. Every Christian's place is in a local church. sharing in its worship, its fellowship, and its witness.
christian counter-culture long
Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture instead of developing a Christian counter-culture .
christian jesus men
A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.
christian easter christ-on-the-cross
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.