Quotes by Wayne Grudem
Wayne Grudem (b. 1948) — Theologe und Autor · Evangelikal / Reformierter Baptist · USA
Wayne Grudem ist ein US-amerikanischer evangelikaler Theologe und Autor, der über Jahrzehnte als Professor an der Trinity Evangelical Divinity School und am Phoenix Seminary lehrte. Er prägte massgeblich das komplementaristische Rollenverständnis von Mann und Frau, verband reformierte Dogmatik mit einer Offenheit für Geistesgaben und stiess mit seiner Trinitätslehre auf theologische Kritik. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnet er vor allem als Verfasser eines weltweit genutzten, praxisorientierten Lehrbuchs der systematischen Theologie sowie als Herausgeber der ESV Study Bible.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Growth & Character, Grace & Redemption, The Bible & the Word of God, Wisdom & Understanding, Faith & Trust, Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Guidance & God's Will
Quotes by Wayne Grudem
If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.
Wayne Grudem
Being filled with the Spirit means to be filled with the immediate presence of God to the extent that you are feeling what God Himself feels, desiring what God desires, doing what God wants, speaking by God’s power, praying and ministering in God’s strength, and knowing with the knowledge that God Himself gives.
Wayne Grudem
If we think it is unfair for us to be represented by Adam, then we should also think it is unfair for us to be represented by Christ and to have His righteousness imputed to us by God.
Wayne Grudem
The more we grow in conformity to Christ, the more we will personally experience the 'joy' and 'peace' that are part of the fruit of the Holy Spirit (Gal 5:22), and the closer we will come to the way of life we will have in heaven.
Wayne Grudem
God’s faithfulness means that God will always do what He has said and fulfill what He has promised.
Wayne Grudem
God’s mercy is His goodness toward those in distress, His grace in His goodness toward those who deserve only punishment, and His patience in His goodness toward those who continue to sin over a period of time.
Wayne Grudem
The Gospel is the good news that Christ died for our sins and rose from the dead, to give us eternal life by pure grace.
Wayne Grudem
Conversion is our willing response to the gospel call, in which we sincerely repent of sins and place our trust in Christ for salvation.
Wayne Grudem
The sufficiency of Scripture means that the Bible contains everything we need God to tell us for salvation, for trusting Him perfectly and for obeying Him perfectly.
Wayne Grudem
Christians do not suffer accidentally or because of the irresistible forces of blind fate; rather, they suffer according to God’s will… Therein lies the knowledge that there is a limit to the suffering, both in its intensity and in its duration, a limit set and maintained by the God who is our creator, our savior, our sustainer, our Father.
Wayne Grudem
Sanctification is a progressive work of God and man that makes us more and more free from sin and like Christ in our actual lives.
Wayne Grudem
God is in control of all things, but in such a way that He still holds us accountable for our decisions and actions.
Wayne Grudem
God’s words are not simply true in the sense that they conform to some standard of truthfulness outside of God. Rather, they are truth itself; they are the final standard and definition of truth.
Wayne Grudem
So what analogy shall we use to teach the Trinity?… It is best to conclude that no analogy adequately teaches about the Trinity, and all are misleading in significant ways.
Wayne Grudem
It is important that we keep growing both in our passive trust that God will sanctify us and in our active pursuit of holiness and greater obedience in our lives.
Wayne Grudem
We must maintain both faith and zeal to obey God at the same time.
Wayne Grudem
Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.
Wayne Grudem
God’s speech to us by His Son is the culmination of His speaking to mankind and is His greatest and final revelation to mankind in this period of redemptive history. The exceptional greatness of the revelation that comes through the Son, far exceeding any revelation in the old covenant, is emphasized again and again throughout chapters 1 and 2 of Hebrews. These facts all indicate that there is a finality to the revelation of God in Christ and that once this revelation has been completed, no more is to be expected.
Wayne Grudem
There is a definite beginning to sanctification at the point of conversion, that sanctification should increase throughout the Christian life, and that sanctification is made perfect at death.
Wayne Grudem
We are free to use our reasoning abilities to draw deductions from any passage of Scripture so long as these deductions do not contradict the clear teaching of some other passage of Scripture.
Wayne Grudem
What is “good?” “Good” is what God approves. We may ask then, why is what God approves good? We must answer, “Because He approves it.” That is to say, there is no higher standard of goodness than God’s own character and His approval of whatever is consistent with that character.
Wayne Grudem
The words of Scripture are God's words, such that to disbelieve or disobey any word of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God Himself.
Wayne Grudem
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of holiness, and he brings forth sanctification in us.
Wayne Grudem
Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature… Sin includes not only individual acts such as stealing or lying or committing murder, but also attitudes that are contrary to the attitudes God requires of us.
Wayne Grudem
The different functions that we see the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit performing are simply outworkings of an eternal relationship between the three persons, one that has always existed and will exist for eternity. God has always existed as three distinct persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. These distinctions are essential to the very nature of God Himself, and they could not be otherwise… It may be said that there are no differences in deity, attributes, or essential nature between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Each person is fully God and has all the attributes of God. The only distinctions between the members of the Trinity are in the ways they relate to each other and to the creation. In those relationships they carry out roles that are appropriate to each person.
Wayne Grudem
So in the presentation of Scripture the cause of election lies in God, and the cause of reprobation lies in the sinner. Another important difference is that the ground of election is God’s grace, whereas the ground of reprobation is God’s justice.
Wayne Grudem
But it should also be said that Scripture does not ask us to believe in a contradiction. A contradiction would be “There is one God and there is not one God,” or “God is three persons and God is not three persons,” or even (which is similar to the previous statement) “God is three persons and God is one person.” But to say that “God is three persons and there is one God” is not a contradiction. It is something we do not understand, and it is therefore a mystery or a paradox, but that should not trouble us as long as the different aspects of the mystery are clearly taught by Scripture, for as long as we are finite creatures and not omniscient deity, there will always (for all eternity) be things that we do not fully understand.
Wayne Grudem
Evangelicals who hold to these various positions [on Christ’s return] all agree that Scripture is inerrant, and they have a commitment to believe whatever is taught by Scripture. Their differences concern the interpretation of various passages relating to these events, but their differences on these matters should be seen as matters of secondary importance, not as differences over primary doctrinal matters.
Wayne Grudem
In one sense the doctrine of the Trinity is a mystery that we will never be able to understand fully. However, we can understand something of its truth by summarizing the teaching of Scripture in three statements: 1. God is three persons. 2. Each person is fully God. 3. There is one God.
Wayne Grudem
So in a Reformed system God’s highest value is His own glory, and in an Arminian system God’s highest value is the freewill of man.
Wayne Grudem
Therefore, any genuine gospel proclamation must include an invitation to make a conscious decision to forsake one’s sins and come to Christ in faith, asking Christ for forgiveness of sins. If either the need to repent of sins or the need to trust in Christ for forgiveness is neglected, there is not a full and true proclamation of the gospel.
Wayne Grudem
We may define God’s providence as follows: God is continually involved with all created things in such a way that He 1. keeps them existing and maintaining the properties with which He created them; 2. Cooperates with created things in every action directing their distinctive properties to cause them to act as they do; 3. Directs them to fulfill His purposes.
Wayne Grudem
We should notice that the alternatives to saying that God uses evil for His purposes, but that He never does evil and is not to be blamed for it, are not desirable ones. If we were to say that God Himself does evil, we would have to conclude that He is not a good and righteous God, and therefore that He is not really God at all. On the other hand, if we maintain that God does not use evil to fulfill His purposes, then we would have to admit that there is evil in the universe that God did not intend, is not under His control, and might not fulfill His purposes… Surely this (too) is an undesirable alternative position.
Wayne Grudem
It is by far the most amazing miracle in the whole Bible – far more amazing than the resurrection and more amazing than the creation of the universe. The fact that the infinite, omnipotent, eternal Son of God could become man and join Himself to a human nature forever, so that infinite God became one person with finite man, will remain for eternity the most profound miracle and the most profound mystery in all the universe.
Wayne Grudem
The New Testament offers us no shortcut by which we can grow in sanctification, but simply calls us repeatedly to use the old-fashioned, time-honored means of Bible reading and meditation (Ps 1:2; Matt 4:4; John 17:17), prayer (Eph 6:18; Phil 4:6), worship (Eph 5:18-20), evangelistic witness (Matt 28:19-20), Christian fellowship (Heb 10:24-25), and self-discipline or self-control (Gal 5:23; Titus 1:8).
Wayne Grudem
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