God will administer loving discipline for wrongdoing in order to keep His children from experiencing even more extreme consequences of sin. This discipline can be quite rigorous, because while the damage of sin unchecked can be so devastating, our wayward impulses can be so strong. There is an appropriate dread of divine discipline that motivates us to avoid sin. Still, in order for discipline to operate properly in the Christian life, we must remember that God’s discipline for his children is never punitive or damaging.
— Bryan Chapell (b. 1954), Theologe, Pastor und Autor
Topics: Growth & Character, Guilt & Forgiveness, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit
Occasions: For Reflection
Bryan Chapell
Bryan Chapell (* 1954) ist ein US-amerikanischer presbyterianischer Pastor, Theologe und ehemaliger Präsident des Covenant Theological Seminary. Bekannt wurde er durch sein Konzept der christuszentrierten Auslegungspredigt, das biblische Texte ausgehend von menschlicher Gebrochenheit konsequent auf die Gnade Gottes in Christus bezieht. Für Bibelleser bieten seine Schriften methodische Zugänge, um Bibeltexte jenseits von reinem Moralismus im heilsgeschichtlichen Zusammenhang zu verstehen.
All quotes by Bryan Chapell (42)
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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