2005-03-17

Christelijk geloof <> christelijk gedrag

There is no greater foe to Christianity than mere profession.
There is no greater discredit to Christianity today than to stand up for it, and yet not live it in our lives.
There is no greater danger in the Christian world today than to stand up for the Bible, and yet to deny that Bible by the very way we defend it.
There is no greater hindrance to Christianity today than to contend for orthodoxy, whatever the orthodoxy may be, and to deny it by the censoriousness, the hardness, the unattractiveness with which we champion our cause.

Oh, this power of pérsonal testimony:
"with the heart filled with the love of Christ, the mind saturated with the teaching of Christ, the conscience sensitive to the law of Christ, the whole nature aglow with grace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ."

Uit: Listening to the Giants, 149-50, Warren Wiersbe, Baker 1980; over W.H. Griffith Thomas

posted by Peter Wierenga @ 12:31