“To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.” Would BeTodayChristianChristianityNormalAverageChristian InspirationalShockTestamentNew Testament Author:Vance Havner
“If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.” IfsChristianNextFailingSucceedDevilAverageBelieverChristian InspirationalSaved Author:Vance Havner
“Biblical higher criticism is preserved in the particular enclave of academic Christian scholarship and is thought to be too unfruitful to share with the average pew-sitter, for it raises more questions than the church can adequately answer. So the leaders of the church would protect the simple believers from concepts they were not trained to understand. In this way that ever-widening gap between academic Christians and the average pew-sitter made its first appearance.” WayFirstsMadeChristianReligionChurchSimpleAnswersLeaderShareParticularHigherProtectConceptsCriticismRaisesAverageAppearanceBelieverGapsAcademicBiblicalScholarship Author:John Shelby Spong
“What is the average type of a counterfeit church? A hammock, attached on one side to the cross, and, on the other, held and swung to and fro by the forefinger of Mammon; its freight of nominal Christians elegantly moaning meanwhile over the evils of the times, and not at ease unless fanned by eloquence and music, and sprinkled by social adulations into perfumed, unheroic slumber.” ChristianEvilSocialSidesChurchTypeCrossesAverageEaseEloquenceSlumberCounterfeitMoaningAdulationHammocks Book:Scepticism and Rationalism: Elective Affinities and Hereditary Descent Source: Scepticism and Rationalism: Elective Affinities and Hereditary Descent
“No matter how entrenched in the imagination of the average Christian the image of a male God might be, theological tradition has never assigned sex to God.” MatterGodMightChristianSexImaginationTraditionMalesAverageTheological Author:Sandra Marie Schneiders
“They can say that abortion is alright. They can vote to sustain gay marriage. And that will take western civilization, indeed other nations because people look to our country as one nation as under God and whenever we legislate sin and we say abortion is permissible and we say gay unions are permissible, then average citizens who are not Christians, because they don't know better, we are leading them astray and it's wrong.” PeopleKnowsLooksCountryChristianNationsSinCitizensCivilizationGayVoteUnionsWesternAverageScaryOur CountryAbortionGay MarriageAlrightWestern Civilization Author:Katherine Harris