David F. Wells Quotes

• 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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  Reaching, Reach Out, Ifs

  David F. Wells (2008). “The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World”, p.55, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace is too ordinary, His judgment is too benign, His gospel is too easy, and His Christ is too common.

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  Grace, Church, Today

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• Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom from our self which enables us to be in positions in which we have neither recognition nor importance, neither power nor visibility, and even experience deprivation, and yet have joy and delight. It is the freedom of knowing that we are not in the center of the universe, not even in the center of our own private universe.

  David F. Wells

  Attitude, Humble, Humility

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• Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything absolute. If it persuades, it does so only because our experience has given it its persuasive power, but tomorrow our experience might be different.

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  Doe, Different, Might

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• La desaparición de la teología de la vida de la Iglesia, y la orquestación de esa desaparición por parte de algunos de sus líderes, es difícil de pasar por alto hoy en día, pero, curiosamente, no es fácil de probar. Es difícil de pasar por alto en el mundo evangélico: en el culto vacuo que prevalece, por ejemplo, en el cambio de Dios al yo como foco central de la fe, en la predicación psicologizada que sigue a este cambio, en la erosión de su convicción, en su pragmatismo estridente, en su incapacidad para pensar incisivamente sobre la cultura, en su deleite en lo irracional.

  David F. Wells

  Thinking, Erosion, Self

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• Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.

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  Evil, Purpose, Sovereignty

  Wells, David F. (2017). “The Courage to Be Protestant, 2nd ed.”, p.175, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Lo que vemos en la cruz es la revelación candente del carácter de Dios, de su amor que proporciona el precio que exige la santidad. La cruz fue su medio para redimir a los pecadores perdidos y reconciliarlos consigo mismo, pero también fue una profunda revelación de su misericordia. Es, en palabras de Pablo, un "don inefable" que nos lleva a maravillarnos y adorar, a alabar y adorar al Dios que se nos ha entregado de esta manera.

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  Mean, Character, White

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• What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just our choices but what we have chosen in place of God.

  David F. Wells

  Choices, Who We Are, Sinfulness

  David F. Wells (2008). “The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World”, p.167, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

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  Character, Personality, Tvs

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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 be evil.

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  Opposites, Evil, Holiness

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• We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it brings to those horizons the powerful antidote of God's truth. It is not the Word of God but rather modernity that stands in need of being demythologised.

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  Powerful, Thinking, Church

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• There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the evangelical world, with its empty worship, its market-driven superficiality, and its trivial thought. It is a breeze blowing toward better, deeper, more honest things. I suspect that it is the Holy Spirit who is blowing, that this is his breeze, and that these leaves that are shaking are the signs of better things to come within an evangelical faith that is thus being reformed. Let us all pray that it is so!

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  World, Honest, Spirit

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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 holiness; the cross is but its victory over sin and death; and faith is but the way in which we bring our worship to him who is holy.

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  Love Is, Grace, Victory

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• Muchos de aquellos cuya tarea consiste en transmitir la verdad de Dios al pueblo de Dios en las iglesias han redefinido ahora la tarea pastoral de tal manera que la teología se ha convertido en un estorbo embarazoso o en una materia de la que tienen poco conocimiento; y muchos en la Iglesia se han replegado sobre sí mismos y han sustituido el conocimiento de Dios por la búsqueda del conocimiento de sí mismos.

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  Past, Self, People

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