"The Church has a dual responsibility to the world around us. On the one hand, we must live, serve, and witness in the world; on the other hand, we must avoid being defiled by the world. Therefore, we cannot escape the world in order to maintain holiness, nor can we sacrifice holiness to please the world."
— John Stott
Source: Radical Disciples: Some Neglected Aspects of Our Call
Church, responsibility, holiness
Views: 488
"An evangelist who has been filled with the Holy Spirit has power. A church full of the Holy Spirit also has power. May the Lord endue our churches with the Holy Spirit that these cold, weak, powerless churches may be able to witness for the Lord, to shine, to lead men to Christ, and to glorify God."
— Andrew Gih
Source: Andrew Gih, Twice Born—and Then? (ed. J. Edwin Orr; London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott), Part II, "Fullness of the Holy Spirit—God's Remedy for a Sick Church," pp. 73–74
Church, danger, persecution, internal, spirituality, indifference, world, testimony, cross, holiness
Views: 236
"The Belgian Vincentian Frédéric-Vincent Lebbe was convinced that missioners should become Chinese in dress, language, attitude, and even loyalty. In 1915, with a group of Chinese Catholics, he published the first Catholic daily, Yi shih pao, and he called for the church to relinquish the protection of foreign powers. In 1928 he adopted Chinese nationality and founded two Chinese religious orders, the Little Brothers of St. John the Baptist and the Little Sisters of St. Therese; after the war with Japan began in 1931 he organized his brothers into a stretcher-bearer corps. Taken captive for six weeks in the spring of 1940, he died of exhaustion shortly after his release."
— Jean-Paul Wiest, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
Source: BDCC, "Lebbe, Frédéric-Vincent" (reprinted from Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions)
Church, love, hope
Views: 206
"Celso Costantini reached China in late 1922 as the first apostolic delegate, and in 1924 convened the First Council of China in Shanghai to address the promotion of the Chinese clergy and the ordination of Chinese bishops. In October 1926 Pope Pius XI ordained six Chinese bishops, the first such ordinations since 1685. By 1933, when Costantini finished his mandate, 19 of the existing 119 ecclesiastical territories were in Chinese hands; in 1926 he had also founded the Disciples of the Lord, a Chinese religious congregation."
— Jean-Paul Wiest, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
Source: BDCC, "Costantini, Celso Benigno Luigi" (reprinted from Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions)
Church, missionary, holiness
Views: 185
"The Chinese church needs the strength of mind and single-mindedness that converted Muslims are able to give."
— J. O. Fraser
Source: The Chinese Recorder
Church, Strength, Muslims, Mind, Single-mindedness
Views: 31
"The church is a seminary, full of both knowledge and experience; the church is a mission agency, sending people out to preach the gospel."
— David Yang
Source: "The Four Cornerstones of the Church"
Church, Seminary, Mission Agency, Gospel
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