The pulpit is not to be used to experiment in doctrine. Doctrine should already be settled before it ever reaches the pulpit. The sanctuary should not be a personal theological laboratory, and the people of God used as white mice. This can have profoundly damaging affects as already seen through the history of the church. Men have often used the pulpits to preaching and through doctrines which they have yet to understand, or fully grasp.
— C. Matthew McMahon, Pastor, Theologe, Autor und Verleger
Topics: Church & Congregation, The Bible & the Word of God, Ethical Questions
Occasions: For Reflection
C. Matthew McMahon
C. Matthew McMahon ist ein zeitgenössischer US-amerikanischer presbyterianischer Pastor, Theologe und Verleger. Er wurde vor allem als Gründer der Plattform „A Puritan's Mind“ bekannt und vertritt einen strikten, an historischen Bekenntnissen ausgerichteten Calvinismus. Für Bibelleser bereitet er theologische Schriften der Puritaner zur christlichen Lebensführung auf, polarisiert im weiteren evangelikalen Raum jedoch durch seine scharfe dogmatische Polemik.
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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