Quotes by Ron Owens
Ron Owens — Autor, Musiker, Komponist und Lobpreisleiter · baptistisch · USA
Ron Owens ist ein US-amerikanischer christlicher Autor, Musiker und Lobpreisleiter baptistischer Prägung, der über Jahrzehnte im Umfeld der Southern Baptist Convention sowie international wirkte. Bekannt wurde er insbesondere durch theologische Schriften und Kompositionen über eine gotteszentrierte Anbetung, unter anderem in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Henry Blackaby. Bibellesern begegnet er heute vor allem als Mahner, christlichen Lobpreis und Gebet an Gottes Heiligkeit statt an menschlicher Unterhaltungskultur auszurichten.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Church & Congregation, Joy & Gratitude, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Prayer & Silence, Discipleship, Humility & Pride, Witness & Mission
Quotes by Ron Owens
There is no place in a worship service for entertainment. The people are not in need of seeing how clever man is, but how holy God is… In entertainment the focus is on man, while in worship the focus is always on God.
Ron Owens
God…is our “audience” in worship. It is His approval that we are to seek.
Ron Owens
True worship, therefore, must begin with a heart attitude of bowing or prostrating oneself in adoration and reverence before the One Who is being worshiped.
Ron Owens
Worship, as we find it in Scripture, is the exclusive right, privilege, and responsibility of the child of God. It is spiritually impossible for an unbeliever to worship. The prevailing idea that the church needs to sound like the world in order to win the world demonstrates a serious misunderstanding of what church really is. It demonstrates more concern with what the world thinks than with what God thinks.
Ron Owens
Our drive to evangelize and our desire to grow numerically have led us to “use” worship as a tool to reach the lost. We have gone so far as to turn our worship services, as opposed to evangelistic services, into "seeker-friendly" meetings, so the world will feel at home when they come into the house of God. We should always be sensitive to the unsaved, but nowhere in Scripture are we told to accommodate the world in what God calls the believer to offer to Him.
Ron Owens
There is one fundamental reason why the living God wants His people to assemble in worship: that is, to ascribe to Him the worth and value that are His, individually and as a body, and to present their bodies as living sacrifices. Worshiping God is not a means to an end; it is an end in itself!
Ron Owens
Sources: owensministries.org, goodreads.com, youtube.com
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