Works that are the outflowing of our salvation are never, then, the root or the basis of our right standing before God, but rather they are the fruit or the demonstration of our true salvation. They testify to the genuineness and reality that we are now His children, that His Spirit lives within, and that the faith that brought us justification continues as a living faith now to bring us ongoing sanctification.
— Bruce Ware (b. 1953), Theologe und Buchautor, Professor für Systematische Theologie
Topics: Grace & Redemption, Growth & Character
Occasions: For Reflection
Bruce Ware
Bruce Ware (* 1953) ist ein US-amerikanischer Theologe und langjähriger Professor für Systematische Theologie am Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. Er vertritt eine reformiert-baptistische Theologie und wurde besonders durch seine Verteidigung der göttlichen Vorsehung gegen den Offenen Theismus sowie durch seine komplementaristische Geschlechterethik bekannt. Für Bibelleser bietet er verständliche Systematisierungen reformierter Dogmatik, wobei seine These einer ewigen funktionalen Unterordnung des Sohnes unter den Vater auch im evangelikalen Raum theologische Kontroversen auslöste.
It wasn't the nails that held Jesus to the cross. It was love.
Max Lucado
Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
Philip Yancey
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
Henri Nouwen
God does not love us because we are lovable, but because his nature is love.
Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
God counts on your failure far more than you do yourself.
Hans Peter Royer
Ultimately mourning means facing what wounds us in the presence of One who can heal.
Henri Nouwen
The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
Tim Keller