Quotes by Richard Owen Roberts
Richard Owen Roberts (b. 1931) — Erweckungshistoriker, Pastor und Autor · evangelikal / kongregationalistisch · USA
Richard Owen Roberts (* 1931) ist ein US-amerikanischer kongregationalistischer Pastor, Historiker und Autor, der unter anderem als Leiter von International Awakening Ministries wirkte. Er ist bekannt für seine Studien zur Erweckungsgeschichte sowie für Veröffentlichungen, die biblische Buße, Heiligung und das souveräne Wirken Gottes betonen. Bibellesern dienen seine Arbeiten als theologische Orientierung zur Unterscheidung zwischen echten geistlichen Aufbrüchen und rein menschlich organisierter Evangelisation.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Church & Congregation, Witness & Mission, Discipleship, Freedom & Truth, Humility & Pride, Courage & Strength, The Bible & the Word of God, Joy & Gratitude
Quotes by Richard Owen Roberts
To teach is to inform! To preach is to move!
Richard Owen Roberts
Christians without courage are a strange and pathetic contradiction and a constant hindrance to revival.
Richard Owen Roberts
Giving “spiritual” encouragement in a biblical sense must mean to encourage based from a standpoint of absolute Truth as opposed to opinion, conjecture or hope. “Spiritual” encouragement, therefore, will be consistent, traceable back to the Bible and rooted in biblical principle.
Richard Owen Roberts
The only path to pleasure is in pleasing God.
Richard Owen Roberts
If the preacher is called by men, he may sensibly give those who called him what they want, but what if the preacher is called by God? How can he dare speak less than all the truth of God?
Richard Owen Roberts
Multitudes who come to church for comfort need to be severely discomfited and awakened out of their lethal slumbering.
Richard Owen Roberts
Is it any wonder the love of tradition is an enemy to revival? Revival and new life go hand in hand… Let every church realize that the inordinate love of tradition is a great opponent to revival… When a church slays the love of tradition, a major obstacle to revival will be slain with it.
Richard Owen Roberts
Spiritual encouragement, therefore, is applying biblical principles to every situation with a view toward bringing each person into right relationship with God. At times spiritual encouragement may “feel”’ harsh. It may not be what one “desires” to hear. That may be true regardless of how gentle the words are which are used. As people fallen from grace we often don’t want to hear the truth. We often just want to hear what will make us feel better. In the end, however, only true spiritual encouragement can be used by God to touch the soul of one.
Richard Owen Roberts
Your life as a Christian is seemingly full of Christ and there is no room for self, but an aggressive sin comes in and wiggles his way in, crowding out Christ just a little bit. You give place to this sin and soon another does the same thing. Sin by sin, error by error, selfishness by selfishness, the backsliding continues until you are virtually empty of Christ and full of self.
Richard Owen Roberts
Which receives the greatest attention: the ornamentation of your words and phrases, or prayer for empowerment from the Holy Spirit? Which is your greater focus: exciting pleasure in the people and praise for the preacher, or reducing the impenitent to tears of contrition and repentance? After which does your heart clamor: the pleasure of knowing that your sermon has been remarkably good, or joy in seeing your people radically affected by the truth of God?
Richard Owen Roberts
Sources: ochristian.com, rortrust.org, sermonindex.net, thriftbooks.com
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