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 ====== Quotes ======
+====== Chip's Practical Wisdom ======
+**Investments:** When asked about investing time and effort into pastor-level ministry vs. doing so in intentional evangelism, Chip says:
+>I like to think that sowing seed all over the place gets more done than limiting yourself to preaching to the same 50 people every week.
+**Calling:** When asked about a "call to ministry" for pastoral-level ministry, Chip says:
+>It's hard for me not to believe there was some kind of a calling going on in Philadelphia, but a calling now is kind of like updating a bathroom in a burned down house.
+**Church Shopping:** When asked about what he wants out of a church, Chip says
+>I'm looking for a church that will not oppose my evangelism ministry.
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 ====== A.W. Pink ======
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+===== Another Kind of Religious Leader =====
+[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._W._Tozer|A.W. Tozer]] (1897-1963), from his book [[https://www.amazon.com/Size-Soul-Principles-Revival-Spiritual/dp/087509497X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0|The Size of the Soul]] (pp. 128-29).
+>If Christianity is to receive a rejuvenation, it must be by other means than any now being used. If the Church in the second half of this century is to recover from the injuries she suffered in the first half, there must appear a new type of preacher.
+>
+>The proper, ruler-of-the-synagogue type will never do. Neither will the priestly type of man who carries out his duties, takes his pay, and asks no questions; nor the smooth-talking pastor type who knows how to make the Christian religion acceptable to everyone. All these have been tried and found wanting.
+>
+>Another kind of religious leader must arise among us. He must be of the old prophet type...
+>
+>When he comes (and I pray there will be not one but many), he will stand in flat contradiction to everything our smirking, smooth civilization holds dear. He will contradict, denounce, and protest in the name of God, and will earn the hatred and opposition of a large segment of Christendom. Such a man is likely to be lean, rugged, blunt-spoken, and a little bit angry with the world. He will love Christ and the souls of men to the point of willingness to die for the glory of the One and the salvation of the other. But he will fear nothing that breathes with mortal breath.
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 ===== The Average Church Member =====
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-Retarded Saints & Entertainment
+===== Retarded Saints & Entertainment =====
 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._W._Tozer|A.W. Tozer]] (1897-1963)
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 **2Timothy 4.3-4:** For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
->The great god 'Entertainment' amuses his devotees mainly by telling them stories. The love of stories, which is characteristic of childhood, has taken fast hold of the minds of the retarded saints of our day, so much so that many manage to make a comfortable living by spinning yarns and serving them up in various disguises to church people. What is natural and beautiful in a child, may be shocking when it persists into adulthood, and more so when it appears in the sanctuary and seeks to pass for true religion!
+>The great god 'Entertainment' amuses his devotees mainly by telling them stories. The love of stories, which is characteristic of childhood, has taken fast hold of the minds of the **retarded saints** of our day, so much so that many manage to make a comfortable living by spinning yarns and serving them up in various disguises to church people. What is natural and beautiful in a child, may be shocking when it persists into adulthood, and more so when it appears in the sanctuary and seeks to pass for true religion!
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->So today we have the astonishing spectacle of millions of dollars being poured into the unholy job of providing earthly entertainment for the so-called people of God. Religious entertainment is in many places rapidly crowding out the serious things of God. Many churches these days have become little more than poor theaters, where fifth-rate 'producers' peddle their shoddy wares with the approval of evangelical leaders who can even quote a holy text in defense of their delinquency. And hardly a man dares raise his voice against it!
+>So today we have the astonishing spectacle of millions of dollars being poured into the unholy job of providing earthly entertainment for the so-called people of God. **Religious entertainment** is in many places rapidly **crowding out** the **serious things of God**. Many churches these days have become little more than poor theaters, where fifth-rate 'producers' peddle their shoddy wares with the approval of evangelical leaders who can even quote a holy text in defense of their delinquency. **//And hardly a man dares raise his voice against it//!**
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 >**Martyn Lloyd-Jones:** "Once you have lost the division between the world and the Church--the Church ceases to be truly Christian!"
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+====== MacLeod: In the Market Place ======
+[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_MacLeod|George MacLeod]] (1938–1967)
+>I simply argue that the cross be raised again at the center of the market place as well as on the steeple of the church. I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves; on a town garbage heap; at a crossroad of politics so cosmopolitan that they had to write His title in Hebrew and Latin and in Greek... at the kind of place where cynics talk smut, and thieves curse and soldiers gamble. Because that is what He died about. And that is where Christ's men ought to be, and what church people ought to be about.
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+====== Ruckman on Life ======
+[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ruckman|Dr. Peter S. Ruckman]] (1921-2016)
+>I find life to be, from an individual standpoint, an outstanding example of God giving a sinner break, after break, after break that he didn’t deserve; and reward, after reward, after reward, that he didn’t earn; and has let not handfuls of purpose, but barrels full of purpose fall his way.
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+====== Spurgeon: She is a Traitor ======
+[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Spurgeon|Charles H. Spurgeon]] (1834-1892)
+>She is a traitor to the Master who sent her if she is so beguiled by the beauties of taste and art as to forget that to "preach Christ... and Him crucified" is the only object for which she exists among the sons of men. The business of the Church is salvation of souls.
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+====== Worship ======
+by Gary Gilley, in his book [[https://www.amazon.com/That-You-Lord-Biblical-Perspective/dp/0852346522/ref=sr_1_1|Is that You Lord?]] (p. 23), quoting Monte E. Wilson.
+>Take worship for example. Monte E. Wilson has noted, "For the modern evangelical, worship is defined exclusively in terms of the individual's experience. Worship, then, is not about adoring God but about being nourished with religious feelings, so much so that the worshiper has become the object of worship."
+>
+>The cause for this type of worship, Wilson believes, is the loss of devotion to Scripture...
+>
+>[Wilson] writes... "Others... have utterly neglected any commitment to the content of the Word and have ended with narcissistic 'worship' services where everyone drowns in a sea of subjectivism and calls it 'being bathed in the presence of the Holy Spirit.' These people come to church exclusively to 'feel' God."
+>
+>Some churches have even decided to call their worship services "experiences."
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