We desperately need the church for love, for maturity and preparedness, for spiritual care. It is arrogant, rebellious, self-reliant, God-indicting pride to conclude that the church is an optional extra to the Christian life. We need everything God designs for us. Everything. To reject what God designs for His glory and our good is spiritual suicide. To reject the church is to take your own spiritual life.
— Thabiti Anyabwile (b. 1970), Pastor und Buchautor
Topics: Church & Congregation, Discipleship, Humility & Pride
Thabiti Anyabwile
Thabiti Anyabwile (* 1970) ist ein US-amerikanischer reformierter Pastor, Gemeindegründer und Buchautor, der unter anderem in Washington, D.C. wirkte. Bekannt wurde er durch Publikationen zu gesunder Gemeindepraxis, biblischer Leiterschaft sowie afroamerikanischer Theologiegeschichte, wobei sein Eintreten gegen systemischen Rassismus in konservativen Kreisen Kontroversen auslöste. Für Bibelleser bietet er praxisbezogene Impulse zur reformierten Ekklesiologie und zur Verbindung von biblischer Lehre mit gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung.
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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