I never got away from Jesus, and Him crucified, and I found that when my people were gripped by this great evangelical doctrine of Christ and Him crucified, I had no need to give them instructions about morality. I found that one followed as the sure and inevitable fruit of the other… I find my Indians begin to put on the garments of holiness and their common life begins to be sanctified even in small matters when they are possessed by the doctrine of Christ and Him crucified.
— David Brainerd (1718–1747), Missionar
Related Bible passage: 1COR.2.2
Topics: Growth & Character, Grace & Redemption, Witness & Mission
Occasions: For Reflection
David Brainerd
David Brainerd (1718–1747) war ein presbyterianischer Missionar in den britischen Kolonien Nordamerikas, der im Umfeld des Ersten Großen Erwachens unter indigenen Völkern wirkte. Bekannt wurde er durch seine postum von Jonathan Edwards herausgegebenen Tagebücher, die von kompromissloser Hingabe, intensivem Gebet, aber auch von schwerer Melancholie und körperlichen Entbehrungen zeugen. Heutigen Bibellesern verdeutlicht sein kurzes Leben die Bereitschaft zum Dienst trotz psychischer Krisen und körperlicher Hinfälligkeit.
All quotes by David Brainerd (10)
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