So here’s how to avoid hypocrisy in fasting. If at any point, while fasting, you find yourself thinking, “God will love me more…God will surely be impressed with me now!” get in your car and go eat a McDonald’s Quarterpounder! If you are the least way tempted to believe, “God will bless me more…He will have no choice but to regard my righteousness!” go eat the biggest greasiest pizza you can find! If it crosses your mind, “I’m better than others who don’t fast, and I sure hope they recognize it as clearly as I do!” go to an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord!
— Sam Storms (b. 1951), Theologe, Pastor und Autor
Related Bible passage: MAT.6.16
Topics: Growth & Character, Prayer & Silence, Humility & Pride
Occasions: For Reflection
Sam Storms
Der US-amerikanische Theologe und Pastor Sam Storms (* 1951) lehrte unter anderem am Wheaton College und wirkte über Jahrzehnte im pastoralen Dienst in Oklahoma und Missouri. Er gilt als prominenter Vertreter eines reformierten Charismatismus und geriet sowohl wegen seiner Auffassung zur Fortdauer übernatürlicher Gaben als auch wegen seiner langjährigen Nähe zur charismatischen Bewegung um Kansas City in die Kritik. Bibellesern bietet er eine Auslegungsperspektive, die eine calvinistische Gnadenlehre mit dem praktischen Ausüben neutestamentlicher Geistesgaben exegetisch verbinden möchte.
All quotes by Sam Storms (269)
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