Quotes by Bill Izard
Bill Izard — evangelikaler Autor und Prediger · reformiert · USA
Bill Izard ist ein US-amerikanischer evangelikaler Prediger, Autor und Pädagoge mit reformierter Prägung, der unter anderem im Bundesstaat Texas im Gemeinde- und Schuldienst wirkte. Bekannt wurde er vor allem durch seinen 1993 veröffentlichten Aufsatz „The Sensitivity of True Worship“, in dem er die Ausrichtung christlicher Gottesdienste an säkularen Besucherzielgruppen scharf kritisierte und eine theozentrische Anbetung einforderte. Bibellesern begegnet er heute als pointierter Mahner gegen eine konsumorientierte Kirchenpraxis und für ein Gottesdienstverständnis, das primär der Verherrlichung Gottes dient.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Church & Congregation, Witness & Mission, Discipleship, Growth & Character, Prayer & Silence, Ethical Questions, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit
Quotes by Bill Izard
A church that seeks to look more and more like the world is in danger of presenting a God that is no longer holy because He is hardly discernible from the world.
Bill Izard
The act of purposefully designing worship to accomplish the goal of evangelism is without biblical precedent… We may worship through evangelism, but never are we instructed to evangelize through worship.
Bill Izard
Worship is a holy expression before a holy God. To invite nonbelievers into such a holy process is a precarious thing, and to design worship in such a way as to accommodate their secular mindset is not only ineffective evangelism but also severely compromised worship.
Bill Izard
If we are obsessed with making our Christian worship comfortable and non offensive to those who hate Him, we are in danger of denying Him and His call to holy living. Are we justified in taking such a risk, only that we may not offend? Surely Christians are not to seek to offend, but Christ says those who follow Him will be offensive – it is unavoidable.
Bill Izard
Nobody loves the unbeliever more than Jesus. (Rom. 5:8) He is the true Seeker come to seek and save the lost. But Jesus was not "seeker sensitive" as the term is used today. There were many who came to Jesus only to be turned away because they had come for the wrong reason.
Bill Izard
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