Quotes by Markus Schäller

Markus Schäller (b. 1968) — Theologe, Dozent und Buchautor · evangelisch-freikirchlich · Deutschland

Markus Schäller (* 1968) ist ein deutscher evangelisch-freikirchlicher Theologe, Dozent und Autor, der unter anderem im ChristusForum Deutschland und an der Biblisch-Theologischen Akademie Wiedenest wirkt. Bekannt ist er vor allem für seine Veröffentlichungen zur paulinischen Theologie, zur Gemeindepraxis sowie zu einer traditionell-konservativen biblischen Beziehungs- und Sexualethik. Für Bibelleser verbinden seine Auslegungen theologische Textarbeit mit lebensnahen Impulsen für christliche Lebensführung und Glaubenspraxis.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: Ethical Questions, Relationships & Family, Church & Congregation, Growth & Character, Witness & Mission, Guidance & God's Will, Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Time & Transience

Quotes by Markus Schäller

Ethical demand without pastoral care quickly derails into moralism.

Markus Schäller

Matters of taste are cultural issues that do not belong at the center of our faith and are therefore not worth the conflict among Christians.

Markus Schäller

The view of transience keeps us from deifying the body, the view of the new body keeps us from devaluing it.

Markus Schäller

Every degradation of the body - however piously justified - contradicts the Creator's will and the whole testimony of Scripture.

Markus Schäller

Marriage is a divine covenant between two people, and thus a protected space for human sexuality.

Markus Schäller

While much is said from the pulpits of churches about the soul and the spirit, the body still leads a shadowy existence in preaching.

Markus Schäller

Marriage is fundamentally a being-with, being-toward, and being-for one another of the partners.

Markus Schäller

Whoever cannot talk to a three-year-old about personal matters in an age-appropriate way will probably not find it much easier with a teenage son.

Markus Schäller

Live so that you yourself can be an example! Whoever lives a healthy marriage will also convince others that this invention of God's is very good.

Markus Schäller

The sexualization of everyday life is a late response to a long history of hostility toward sex and the body.

Markus Schäller

Marriage is the lifelong, binding, holistic and publicly declared union between a man and a woman.

Markus Schäller

Within an ethical framework there is much freedom to shape one's life, and the Holy Spirit can lead a person concretely.

Markus Schäller

Human sexuality stands, in principle, between God's good creation and sinful perversion.

Markus Schäller

Abstinence in marriage is not a spiritual practice, but a dangerous one!

Markus Schäller

A church only knows what it is told.

Markus Schäller

Responsible action consists in a person doing what they are meant to do before God.

Markus Schäller

Whoever cannot abstain should marry and maintain sexual contact within marriage.

Markus Schäller

When two people agree to do something wrong, the wrong doesn't become right.

Markus Schäller

Given the strong testimony character of a stable marriage in our time, the success of marriages must be a high priority for the congregation.

Markus Schäller

Sources: weisses-kreuz.de, christliches-bildungszentrum.de, christundbuch.de, christusforum.de

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