“The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is hard to miss today, but oddly enough, not easy to prove. It is hard to miss in the evangelical world--in the vacuous worship that is so prevalent, for example, in the shift form God to the self as the central focus of faith, in the psychologized preaching that follows this shift, in the erosion of its conviction, in its strident pragmatism, in its inability to think incisively about the culture, in its reveling in the irrational.” ThinkingWorldSelfHardEnoughTodayFormCultureEasyChurchLeaderFocusMissingExampleProveWorshipConvictionTheologyPreachingIrrationalInabilityEvangelicalProve ItDisappearancePragmatismErosionOrchestrationVacuous Author:David F. Wells
“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!” WorldStatesSpiritHonestPrayingHolyWorshipEmptyDeeperDrivenHoly SpiritSuspectsBreezeShakingDiscontentEvangelicalSuperficiality Author:David F. Wells
“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.” WaySinLove IsPayGraceVictoryHolyWorshipCrossesHolinessReachingSinnerReach OutHis LoveGod's LoveVictory Over Sin Author:David F. Wells
“What we see at the cross is the white-hot revelation of the character of God, of his love providing the price that holiness requires. The cross was his means of redeeming lost sinners and reconciling them to himself, but it was also a profound disclosure of his mercy. It is, in Paul’s words, an ‘inexpressible gift’ that leads us to wonder and worship, to praise and adore the God who has given himself to us in this way.” WayMeanCharacterLostGivenWhiteWonderWorshipCrossesMercyPraiseHotProfoundRevelationsHolinessSinnerProvidingAdoreHis LoveDisclosureRedeemingCharacter Of God Author:David F. Wells
