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Roland Allen, born on December 29, 1868, was a prominent missionary from the United Kingdom. He spent 40 years in China, dedicated to the spread and development of Christianity. Allen was known for his unique approach to missionary work, advocating for localization and simplification in the propagation of Christianity, which had a profound impact on the development of Chinese Christian churches.

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Famous Roland Allen Quotes

“Of course all advance depends upon money, when we depend upon paid workers for any advance. Teach men as one of their first lessons in the gospel that pastoral work and evangelistic work ought to be paid, and will they not believe it? They would all believe it if the Holy Ghost did not dispute our teaching. It is a powerful proof of the presence and grace of the Holy Ghost that they do not all believe it and act accordingly.”

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Book:The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

Source: The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

“In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.”

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Book:The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

Source: The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

“Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.”

Source: The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

“There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race.”

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Book:Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?

Source: Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?

“We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.”

Want Results Method Theology Missionary

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“What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.”

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Book:Missionary Principles and Practice

Source: Missionary Principles and Practice

“We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst the native Christians slowly recreate their own customs as the Spirit of Christ gradually teaches them.”

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Author:Roland Allen

“The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.”

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Book:The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

Source: The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

“Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.”

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“I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.”

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“The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work.”

World Firsts Church Missions Wide Organized

Book:The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church and the Causes Which Hinder it

Source: The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church and the Causes Which Hinder it

“The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its elements is a very simple thing...What is necessary is faith. What is needed is the kind of faith which uniting a man to Christ, sets him on fire.”

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Author:Roland Allen

“Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.”

Source: The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

“If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.”

Ifs Soul Christ Duty Morality Consideration Preaching Thrones Heathen Preaching The Gospel

Book:The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

Source: The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

“Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.”

Men Facts Spiritual Spirit Christ Church Theory Contradiction Flats Communion

Book:The Reform of the Ministry: A Study in the Work of Roland Allen

Source: The Reform of the Ministry: A Study in the Work of Roland Allen

“To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.”

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Book:Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?

Source: Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?

“The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.”

Men Needs Spiritual Mets Intellectual Moved Cried Apostles Illumination Apprehension

Author:Roland Allen

About the Author

Born: December 29, 1868
Died: June 9, 1947
Known for: Missionary
Quotes: 17

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