The only difference in death between a Christian and one who is not is that the Christian is ready to meet Jesus. A Christian is dead already - dead to the world, but alive to Christ. Death for you as a child of God is to fall asleep in His arms and awake in the other world, alive forever beyond the power of pain, safe forever from all sickness and suffering.

Winkie Pratney (b. 1944), Jugendevangelist, Erweckungsprediger, Autor und Mentor

Topics: Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Grief & Comfort, Time & Transience

Occasions: Comfort, Farewell & Funeral

Winkie Pratney

Winkie Pratney (* 1944) ist ein neuseeländischer Jugendevangelist, Autor und Bibellehrer, der seit den 1960er-Jahren international in der Jesus-People-Bewegung sowie in Werken wie Jugend mit einer Mission wirkte. Bekannt für seinen Aufruf zu radikaler Jüngerschaft und Erweckung, löste er mit seiner an Charles Finney angelehnten „Moral Government Theology“ und der Ablehnung der traditionellen Erbsündenlehre anhaltende theologische Kritik im evangelikalen Spektrum aus. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnet er als Mahner zu persönlicher Lebensheiligung und Buße, dessen Aussagen zu freiem Willen und göttlicher Souveränität jedoch theologiegeschichtlich umstritten bleiben.

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