God does not promise material rewards to those who become His and who give themselves completely to the Person of Christ. He may turn a man’s material prosperity into poverty that God might teach Him the lesson of the sufficiency of Jesus Christ. God might strip away what a man has to show a man where His love actually was so that a man might become a disciple of Christ. We have no promise that our bank accounts will automatically double when we commit ourselves to Him.
— J. Dwight Pentecost (1915–2014), Theologe und Hochschullehrer
Topics: Money & Possessions, Discipleship
J. Dwight Pentecost
John Dwight Pentecost (1915–2014) war ein US-amerikanischer evangelikaler Theologe und Pastor, der fast sechs Jahrzehnte lang am Dallas Theological Seminary in Texas Bibelauslegung lehrte. Er galt als führender akademischer Vertreter des klassischen Dispensationalismus und prägte mit seinem Werk „Things to Come“ maßgeblich die Endzeitlehre des 20. Jahrhunderts. Während Bibelleser seine systematischen Auslegungen der biblischen Bücher nutzen, stößt seine strikte Unterscheidung zwischen Israel und der christlichen Gemeinde vor allem in der reformierten Theologie auf deutlichen Widerspruch.
All quotes by J. Dwight Pentecost (3)
God made us to love people and use things. Our problem is that we love things and use people.
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My banker is the good Lord. He sees to it that there is always something.
Mother Teresa
George Muller
Martin Luther
Nikolai Berdyaev
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C.S. Lewis
Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves.
Warren Wiersbe
Martin Luther