Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion to the state and marching up the marble steps of the Emperor's palace, with the church robed in purple. Thus and there was begun the most baneful misalliance that ever fettered and cursed a suffering world... When ... Constantine crowned the union of church and state, the church was stamped with the spirit of the Caesars.
— George W. Truett (1867–1944), Baptistenpastor
Topics: Church & Congregation, Ethical Questions
Occasions: For Reflection
George W. Truett
Der US-amerikanische Baptistenpastor George W. Truett leitete von 1897 bis 1944 die First Baptist Church in Dallas und stand zeitweise sowohl der Southern Baptist Convention als auch dem Baptistischen Weltbund vor. Bekanntheit erlangte er vor allem durch seine Redegewandtheit, sein evangelistisches Wirken und sein engagiertes Eintreten für Religions- und Gewissensfreiheit. Für Bibelleser stehen seine Schriften für eine klassische baptistische Glaubens- und Seelsorgepraxis, während Historiker zugleich sein weitgehendes Schweigen zur damaligen Rassentrennung im US-Süden anmerken.
All quotes by George W. Truett (9)
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