J. I. Packer
J. I. Packer
JamesInnell Packeris a British-born Canadian Christian theologian in the low church Anglican and Reformed traditions. He currently serves as the Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is considered one of the most influential evangelicals in North America. He has been the theologian emeritus of the Anglican Church in North America, since its inception in 2009...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth22 July 1926
humble work-out church
God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.
be-good theologian
Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.
christian action evangelism
All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.
mean perfect heaven
God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had sinned; but as it is he has set his love upon particular sinners, and this means that, by his own free voluntary choice, he will not know perfect and unmixed happiness again till he has brought every one of them to heaven. He has in effect resolved that henceforth for all eternity his happiness shall be conditional upon ours.
character heart reality
The point here is not just that an image represents God as having body and parts, whereas in reality he has neither. But the point really goes much deeper. The heart of the objection to pictures and images is that they inevitably conceal most, if not all, of the truth about the personal nature and character of the divine Being whom they represent.
believe thank-god sound-judgment
You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.
christian greatness worship
The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
wrath unrighteousness reacting
God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
exercise love-is merit
God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.
devil firsts digging
If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.
order christ servant
Always and everywhere the servants of Christ are under orders to evangelize
dies know-how knows
Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.
focus adoption would-be
Were I asked to focus the New Testament message in three words, my proposal would be ADOPTION THROUGH PROPITIATION, and I do not expect ever to meet a richer or more pregnant summary of the gospel than that.
saving flow doe
The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it