I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
Francis SchaefferIn the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.
Francis Schaeffer...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.
Francis SchaefferThere needs to be an order of office, but in every single office that is presented in the Scriptures there is the personal emphasis within that legal concept. In the Church the elder is an office-bearer. But both the preaching elders and the ruling elders are "ministers," and the word "minister" is a personal relationship, it does not speak of dominance. There is to be order in the Church, but the preaching elder or the ruling elder is to be a minister, with a loving personal relationship with those who are before him, even when they are wrong and need admonition.
Francis Schaeffer