"Don't try to coerce people and make them do things. It has to come from inside, from their hearts. And that means they need knowledge that awakens love. People's affections are changed by what they know" (Piper, The Pastor as Scholar & The Scholar as Pastor, 60-61)
Friday, May 27, 2011
Quotation Friday: How to Change People
"Don't try to coerce people and make them do things. It has to come from inside, from their hearts. And that means they need knowledge that awakens love. People's affections are changed by what they know" (Piper, The Pastor as Scholar & The Scholar as Pastor, 60-61)
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Excellent quote. Amen.
And yet speaking the truth in love carries a lot of different emotions with it. Joy, hopefully for the most part, but alos times of righteous anger may be called for. Rebuking can be a blessing, and not coercion.
"If we break it, then we need to fix it." -JFK
Have a blessed weekend Jonathan. Our Father in heaven loves us. I really don't believe this the way I should. He is Abba, Father, and I pray we, who are genuinely born anew in His grace, take His love deep into our hearts, and learn of how Jesus' love is the most pwoerful thing in the universe for us. Satan can not thwart, nor penetrate God's amzing love.
God bless brother.
Thank you for your thoughts and prayers, Don. I'll be preaching from Steve Lawson's pulpit this weekend, which is a tremendous honor, and responsibility.
That's such a blessing for you Jonathan, and for Steve's congregation.
I was just reading some of Steve's thoughts. What a great pastor he is.
Here's a quick quote from Steve's book, 'Pillars of Grace': "The doctrines of grace teach that man is ruined in sin and is unable to save himself. Worse, he is spiritually dead in sin and cannot understand, nor even rightly choose, the gospel of salvation. His mind, emotions, and will are all completely bound in sin. But God, by His grace, chose before time began those whom He would save. The Father gave these elect ones to His Son to be His inheritance. In so doing, the Father commissioned the Son to come into the world and die a substitutionary, sin-bearing death upon the Cross, securing the salvation of all these whom the Father chose......This is the glory of God in the doctrines of grace."
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