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--- notes_quotes [2020/04/24 17:47] – [Chip's Practical Wisdom] gregkedro
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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.
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+>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.
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+>Another kind of religious leader must arise among us. He must be of the old prophet type...
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+>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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 >**Charles Spurgeon:** "Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!"
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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 ======
-Dr. Peter S. Ruckman:
+[[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 ======