The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is not inadequate technique, insufficient organization, or antiquated music and those who want to squander the church’s resources bandaging these scratches will do nothing to staunch the flow of blood that is spilling from its wounds. The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace too ordinary, His judgment too benign, His gospel too easy, and His Christ is too common.
— David Wells (b. 1939), Theologe und Professor für Systematische Theologie
Topics: Church & Congregation, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Faith & Trust
Occasions: For Reflection
David Wells
David Falconer Wells (* 1939) ist ein US-amerikanischer reformierter Theologe und lehrte über viele Jahre als Professor für Systematische Theologie am Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Er wurde vor allem durch seine kulturkritischen Analysen bekannt, in denen er dem modernen Evangelikalismus einen Verlust an theologischer Tiefe zugunsten von Pragmatismus und Konsumorientierung vorwirft. Bibellesern dient er heute als scharfsinniger Diagnostiker der Säkularisierung und als Mahner für theologische Integrität gegenüber zeitgeistigen Anpassungen.
The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
Tim Keller
The Church is not a cultural club, but the family of Jesus.
Pope Francis
The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
John Charles Ryle
In essential unity; in nonessentials liberty; in all this charity.
Rupertus Meldenius
Henry Ward Beecher
Philip Yancey
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
In a congregation, every person must be able to be as their heart truly is.
Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf