Our drive to evangelize and our desire to grow numerically have led us to “use” worship as a tool to reach the lost. We have gone so far as to turn our worship services, as opposed to evangelistic services, into "seeker-friendly" meetings, so the world will feel at home when they come into the house of God. We should always be sensitive to the unsaved, but nowhere in Scripture are we told to accommodate the world in what God calls the believer to offer to Him.
— Ron Owens, Autor, Musiker, Komponist und Lobpreisleiter
Topics: Church & Congregation, Witness & Mission, Discipleship
Occasions: For Reflection
Ron Owens
Ron Owens ist ein US-amerikanischer christlicher Autor, Musiker und Lobpreisleiter baptistischer Prägung, der über Jahrzehnte im Umfeld der Southern Baptist Convention sowie international wirkte. Bekannt wurde er insbesondere durch theologische Schriften und Kompositionen über eine gotteszentrierte Anbetung, unter anderem in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Henry Blackaby. Bibellesern begegnet er heute vor allem als Mahner, christlichen Lobpreis und Gebet an Gottes Heiligkeit statt an menschlicher Unterhaltungskultur auszurichten.
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