Too many missionary appeals are based upon this fancied frustration of Almighty God [the idea that God needs our help]. An effective speaker can easily excite pity in his hearers, not only for the heathen but for the God who has tried so hard and so long to save them and has failed for want of support. I fear that thousands of young persons enter Christian service from no higher motive than to help deliver God from the embarrassing situation His love has gotten Him into and His limited abilities seem unable to get Him out of. Add to this a certain degree of commendable idealism and a fair amount of compassion for the underpriviliged and you have the true drive behind much Christian activity today.*I do not recommend the TNIV, but I have several copies to give away for study purposes. Just having a little fun here.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Another Installment of the Quote Game
No Googling. I will put a TNIV* on the table for anyone who gets it in the first seven guesses. It is only with great trepidation that I loosen the requirement from five, but I'm getting complaints. Ingrates.
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Beverley Lahaye.
No, no. Chad Allen. That's my final guess.
Okay, don't count this as a guess.
Tom Ascol?
Not Ascol.
And I will not count Ryan's guesses. Of course, one of Lahaye or Allen MIGHT be the right answer. But you'll have to log an official guess to find out.
I am so tempted to log an official guess with Chad Allen.
No problem. I thought maybe you were just guessing John Piper and some other less well-known Piper. Welcome, and since you're new I'll give you the second Piper guess for free.
A. W. Tozer
AMAZING!!!!!! Confetting and balloons are falling from my ceiling, horns are blowing, people are singing! Pittsley has won. The answer is A.W. Tozer, your favorite Biblicist/Arminian and mine (from The Knowledge of the Holy, chapter 6, p. 40 in my edition)! Pittsley, just e-mail me your mailing address, and I'll get that TNIV right out to you.
Caleb, I know I recognize your name, and I'm pretty sure I'm putting the right face to it. Tall with kind of blonde hair? Where are you now?
So if Chad Allen ever does a Tozer movie would Ryan get the TNIV as long as there was a clear presentation of the gospel?
I would probably just scoop up the "confetting" that fell from my ceiling (whatever that is) and send it to him in a manila envelope. It's not like he ever manned up and actually guessed Allen or anything. I could be wrong, but I think he was just playing me for laughs.
Pittsley, I don't care how much you like TNIV gender neutrality, this is a smiley-free zone. Don't push your luck.
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