Archive for the ‘Quote of the Day’ Category
Savage Controversies…
June 12th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in » Baptist Issues, Quote of the Day
I ran across the following quote this morning, and thought it very much applicable to SBC matters…
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
– Bertrand Russell
Just thought I’d share.
“Beer-vangelism”?
January 29th, 2007 | 7 Comments | Posted in » Baptist Issues, In the News..., Quote of the Day
I’m not terribly fond of the title of this article, but it’s an interesting read about The Journey in St. Louis (a non-traditional church that is doing a phenomenal job of reaching young people) and the controversy surrounding a discussion forum they hold called “Theology at the Bottleworks”.
I have to say, I really enjoyed how the following response to this article (found on the Missouri Baptist mailing list) put this into perspective:
Nothing reveals the Glory of God to the nations, nothing communicates the power of the Risen Lord to a lost world, nothing draws all men to Jesus Christ… like a bunch of Baptists fighting over beer.
To be honest, I’m still not sure how some Missouri Baptists can let themselves get so upset about this matter. Didn’t Jesus go where the lost and hurting were? Why shouldn’t we?
Antiquarian Curiosity Seekers…
January 24th, 2007 | 4 Comments | Posted in » Quote of the Day
I heard an interesting anecdote this morning on the radio in a sermon from Pastor Bob Coy of Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale (interestingly to me, he resembles my friend Kevin Bussey!). I had to share it here.
First, the quote (this is from the internet, not word for word from his sermon)…
One hundred years from my day there will not be a Bible in the earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity seeker.
– attributed to Voltaire (1694-1778)
Tradition has it that at some point after his death, the Geneva Bible Society purchased Voltaire’s home, and could be found using it as a Bible printing facility.
Whether true or not (a bit of internet research raises some questions about the validity of this story), it’s a good illustration of God’s sense of humor. It’s almost as if God said, “Well, I’ll show you.”
Voltaire couldn’t have been much more wrong (unless you count millions of Christians as “antiquarian curiosity seekers”).
On Alcohol… from the Florida Baptist Convention
December 1st, 2006 | 4 Comments | Posted in » Baptist Issues, Quote of the Day
Interesting. This Baptist Press article addresses statements made at the Florida Baptist Convention regarding alcohol.
Here’s a few of the “highlights”:
We are not going to have people on our boards of trustees that do not believe in total abstinence.
– John Sullivan (Executive Director-Treasurer of Florida Baptist Convention)
God saved me from that and when we make decisions, I want it to be done in sobriety. We may not always be right, but we’ll always be sober.
– John Sullivan (Executive Director-Treasurer of Florida Baptist Convention)
I don’t drink, don’t want to, don’t need to. That’s not my point. But I can’t make that text say that the man can’t take a drink.
– Voddie Baucham (Houston evangelist)
Don’t you let it touch your lips. How ironic is that? Can I tell you why that’s the position we take? Because we don’t have a problem with alcoholic pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention.
– Voddie Baucham (Houston evangelist)
It’s probably safe to say that Baptists will never agree on alcohol consumption… (no, I’m not talking about what kind!).
Entertainment… Evil?
November 22nd, 2006 | 5 Comments | Posted in » Quote of the Day
I ran across the following quote on another blog today… thought provoking stuff.
I believe that amusements were created by the devil to take the minds of dying men off of their dying. I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the enemy to keep dying men from knowing they’re dying and to keep men who are enemies of God from remembering they are enemies. . . . Fallen human nature plus the work of the devil have given us something to keep us thinking harmless thoughts and pleasant thoughts in order that we might not settle the matter of eternal soul welfare. The man who comes home at night, God in heaven knows, and nobody else does, that just three weeks away is a coronary thrombosis that will drop him on the sidewalk. God knows it and he doesn’t and his family doesn’t. If he knew it, he’d be calling in the preacher and reading his Bible and getting straight with God. And why isn’t he going to call anybody and get right with God? Too many funny things on the radio, too many funny things on T.V., too many Life magazines, too many comic strips, too many things that he can do! Too many bowling clubs, too many theaters, too many night ball-games, too much everything to take his mind off the fact that his troubles are real and that the agitation and disharmony and discord within him are the result of his fall and his sin. . . . Now if that’s radicalism, you can quote me, I don’t care. I believe that.
– A.W. Tozer
What do you think? Is there much truth in this? How should whatever truth this quote embodies be implemented in our lives?
A Lighthouse…
November 16th, 2006 | Comments Off | Posted in » Baptist Issues, Quote of the Day
Thought the following quote I saw today on the Missouri Baptist Mailing List was especially appropriate in light of a lot of recent actions by Baptist state conventions…
A lighthouse doesn’t shout or scream, it shines.
– source unknown
(Note: this also marks the start of a new category of posts here… the “Quote of the Day”, which probably is a bit of a misnomer as it won’t be all that daily.)