CQOD: 09/11/05 -- Owen: faith from need

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 11, 2005Meditation:
    [Jesus:] "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me."
    -- John 6:44,45 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    That faith alone will never forsake Christ which springs out of or is built upon a conviction of the need for Him.
    ... John Owen (1616-1683)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Do I know how great is my need for Christ?

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CQOD: 09/10/05 -- Edwards: God's church has never failed

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 10, 2005Meditation:
    [To Elijah:] Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
    -- 1 Kings 19:18 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    The work of God in converting souls out of the hands of Satan, was begun soon after the fall of man, has been carried on in the world ever since to this day, and will be to the end of the world. God has always, ever since erecting of the church of the redeemed after the fall, had such a church in the world. Though oftentimes it has been reduced to a very narrow compass and to low circumstances; yet it has never wholly failed.
    ... Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), A History of the Work of Redemption [1773]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, thank You for Your church.

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CQOD: 09/09/05 -- Manley: to be more like Christ

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 9, 2005Meditation:
    For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
    -- Romans 8:29 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    This is our great need, to be more like Christ, that His likeness may be seen in our lives; and this is just what is promised to us as we yield ourselves in full surrender to the working of His Spirit. Then, as we draw nearer to Christ, we shall be drawn nearer to His people; and in our search for unity with the members we shall be drawn closer to the Head.
    ... G. T. Manley, Christian Unity [1945]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I long to be more like you. Implant in me the love You have for your people.

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CQOD: 09/08/05 -- Augustine: Christ as the foundation

CQOD: 09/08/05 -- Augustine: Christ as the foundation

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 8, 2005Meditation:
    As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For in Scripture it says:

    "See, I lay a stone in Zion,
        a chosen and precious cornerstone,
    and the one who trusts in him
        will never be put to shame."

Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,

    "The stone the builders rejected
        has become the capstone,"

and,

    "A stone that causes men to stumble
        and a rock that makes them fall."

They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.
    -- 1 Pet. 2:4-8

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Quotation:
    Whoever has Christ in his heart, so that no earthly or temporal things—not even those that are legitimate and allowed—are preferred to Him, has Christ as a foundation. But if these things be preferred, then even though a man seem to have faith in Christ, yet Christ is not the foundation to that man.
    ... St. Augustine (354-430), The City of God, XXI.26 [426]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord Jesus, you are my foundation.

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CQOD: 09/07/05 -- Dodd: the Divine Commonwealth

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 7, 2005

Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957

Meditation:
    Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
    -- 1 Corinthians 8:1 (NIV)

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Quotation:
     We have spoken throughout of the Divine Commonwealth. That phrase represents Paul’s “ecclesia of God.” It is a community of loving persons, who bear one another’s burdens, who seek to build up one another in love, who “have the same thoughts in relation to one another that they have in their communion with Christ.” It is all this because it is the living embodiment of Christ’s own Spirit. This is a high and mystical doctrine, but a doctrine which has no meaning apart from loving fellowship in real life. A company of people who celebrate a solemn sacrament of Christ’s Body and Blood, and all the time are moved by selfish passions—rivalry, competition, mutual contempt—is not for Paul a Church or Divine Commonwealth at all, no matter how lofty their faith or how deep their mystical experience; for all these things may “puff up;” love alone “builds up.”
     In the very act, therefore, of attaining its liberty to exist, the Divine Commonwealth has transcended the great divisions of men. In principle, it has transcended them all, and by seriously living out that which its association means, it is on the way to comprehending the whole race. Short of that its development can never stop. This is the revealing of the sons of God for which the whole creation is waiting.
    ... C. Harold Dodd (1884-1973), The Meaning of Paul for Today [1920]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, show me how to help with the building up of the church.

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CQOD: 09/06/05 -- Dodd: the Body of Christ

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 6, 2005

Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965

Meditation:
    Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours...
    -- 1 Corinthians 1:2 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    In this Body of Christ, Paul sees “the ecclesia of God.” Ecclesia is a Greek word with a splendid history. It was used in the old free commonwealths of Greece for the general assembly of all free citizens, by which their common life was governed. When political liberty went, the name still survived in the restricted municipal self-government which the Roman State allowed. It was taken over by the brotherhoods and guilds which in some measure superseded the old political associations. Among the Jews who spoke Greek, this word seemed the appropriate one to describe the commonwealth of Israel as ruled by God—the historical Theocracy. Our translation of it is “Church.” That word, however, has undergone such transformations of meaning that it is often doubtful in what sense it is being used. Perhaps for ecclesia we may use the word—simpler, more general, and certainly nearest to its original meaning—“commonwealth.”
    ... C. Harold Dodd (1884-1973), The Meaning of Paul for Today [1920]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Do I lack love for the common life of the church?

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CQOD: 09/05/05 -- Francis: joy

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 5, 2005Meditation:
    When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
    -- Matthew 6:16-18 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.
    ... St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, help me to maintain a cheerful demeanor.

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