J. I. Packer Quotes About Worship

• If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.

  J. I. Packer

  Oración, Hijos, Padre

• Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.

  J. I. Packer

  Men, Scripture, Matter

• The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today largely lack: and that is one reason why our faith is so feeble and our worship so flabby... When a person in the church, let alone the person in the street, uses the word God, the thought is rarely of divine majesty.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Greatness, Church

• God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion.

  J. I. Packer

  Wise, Prayer, Mean

• We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Godly, Greatness

• La vida del cristiano en todos sus aspectos -intelectual y ética, devocional y relacional, exaltada en la adoración y extrovertida en el testimonio- es sobrenatural; sólo el Espíritu puede iniciarla y sostenerla. Por eso, sin él, no sólo no habrá creyentes vivos ni congregaciones vivas, sino que no habrá creyentes ni congregaciones en absoluto.

  J. I. Packer

  Cristiano, Intelectual, Espíritu

  J. I. Packer (2005). "Mantente al paso del Espíritu: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God", p.15, Baker Books

• There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.

  J. I. Packer

  Son, Order, Desire

• The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Greatness, Worship

  J. I. Packer (1973). “Knowing God”, Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press

• Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

  J. I. Packer

  Order, Worship, True Worship

También te puede gustar:

John Owen

John Stott

Alister E. McGrath

R. C. Sproul

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Sinclair B. Ferguson

Merrill C. Tenney