CQOD: 06/08/07 -- Schaeffer: the testimony of the Church

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 8, 2007

Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711

Meditation:
    Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
    -- Colossians 3:9-11 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Now the world should be able to see in the Church those marks [which show] that there is a substantial sociological healing possible in the present generation. It is not enough for the Church to be engaged with the State in healing social ills, though this is important at times. But when the world can turn around and see a group of God’s people exhibiting substantial healing in the area of human relationships in their present life, then the world will take notice. Each group of Christians is, as it were, a pilot plant, showing that something can be done in the present situation, if only we begin in the right way.
    ... Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984), The God Who Is There [1968]

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Quiet time reflection:
    We are broken vessels, Lord, but You alone can mend us and make us useful again.

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CQOD: 06/07/07 -- Schaeffer: Christian sociology

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 7, 2007Meditation:
    Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults.
    -- 1 Corinthians 14:20 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    This is the real Church of the Lord Jesus Christ—not merely organization, but a group of people, individually the children of God, drawn together by the Holy Spirit for a particular task, either in a local situation or over a wider area. The Church of the Lord Jesus should be a group of those who are redeemed and bound together on the basis of true doctrine. But subsequently they should show together a substantial “sociological healing” of the breaches between men, which have come about because of... man’s sin. The Christian sociological position is that the sociological problems which we find... are a result of the separation that has come between men because of sin. (Continued tomorrow)
    ... Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984), The God Who Is There [1968]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Heal us, Lord.

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