The problem with conservative churches is not that they lack members. The problem is that many of those members are not converted. Millions of members of evangelical churches are absent from worship services each Sunday and are equally absent from Christian living during the rest of the week. Biblical illiteracy and unethical conduct by Christians seem to be on the rise. Many people who attend are indifferent to the truths of Christianity, and others are divisive, even mean-spirited.
— Paul House (b. 1958), Alttestamentler, Theologieprofessor und Autor
Topics: Church & Congregation, Discipleship
Occasions: For Reflection
Paul House
Paul R. House (* 1958) ist ein US-amerikanischer Alttestamentler und evangelikaler Theologe, der unter anderem am Wheaton College sowie an der Beeson Divinity School lehrte. Bekannt wurde er vor allem durch seine kanonisch ausgerichtete alttestamentliche Theologie sowie seine Studie zur literarischen Einheit des Zwölfprophetenbuchs. Für heutige Bibelleser erschließen seine Kommentare und wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten das Alte Testament als theologische Einheit auf der Grundlage einer fundierten hebräischen Exegese.
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