Every Christian is carnal in some area of his life at many times in his life… All the marks of Christianity are not equally apparent in all Christians. Nor are any of these marks manifest to the same degree in every period of any Christian’s life. Love, faith, obedience, and devotion will vary in the same Christian in different periods of his Christian experience; in other words, there are many degrees of sanctification. The Christian’s progress in growth is not constant and undisturbed. There are many hills and valleys in the process of sanctification; and there are many stumblings, falls and crooked steps in the process of growth in grace…[Yet] the Bible [does not] divide men into three categories.
— Ernest Reisinger (1919–2004), Pastor, Gemeindegründer und Autor
Topics: Growth & Character, Guilt & Forgiveness
Occasions: For Reflection
Ernest Reisinger
Ernest Reisinger (1919–2004) war ein US-amerikanischer Bauunternehmer, Pastor und Autor, der Gemeinden in Pennsylvania und Florida aufbaute und leitete. Er wurde zum maßgeblichen Wegbereiter der calvinistischen Erneuerungsbewegung in der Southern Baptist Convention und wandte sich gegen oberflächliche Bekehrungsmethoden sowie die Lehre vom sogenannten fleischlichen Christen. Für heutige Bibelleser bietet sein Werk eine Schriftauslegung, die Gottes Gnade untrennbar mit persönlicher Heiligung und dem biblischen Verständnis von Gesetz und Evangelium verbindet.
All quotes by Ernest Reisinger (8)
When we pray, the circumstances often remain the same, but we become different.
Oswald Chambers
Discipline is choosing what you want most over what you want now.
Craig Groeschel
Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.
Tim Keller
Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
Eugene Peterson
Being a Christian is not a 'do-it-yourself' affair.
Jerry Bridges
Christ accepts us as we are, but he does not leave us as we are.
Ingrid Trobisch
John Newton
Charles Haddon Spurgeon