“The most powerful weapon for silencing the mouth of the world is not brilliant theological apologetics, but the practice of a holy life that resembles Jesus Christ.” “Now it happened, as Jesus went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they were watching Him closely. And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had dropsy. And Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, ‘Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?’ But they kept silent. And He took him and healed him, and let him go. Then He answered them, saying, ‘Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?’ And they could not answer Him regarding these things” (Luke 14:1–6). (1) As I meditated on today’s passage, Luke 14:1–6, the phrase that first caught my attention was: “they were watching Him clos...
교회의 지도자라면 ... "일반적으로 담임 목사는 장로들은 교회에서 막대한 영향을 미치므로 이들이 신학적, 도덕적, 감정적으로 무너지면 교회는 돌이킬 수 없는 피해를 받게 된다. 그러므로 교회의 지도자라면 다른 사람을 지도하는 것처럼 자기 자신도 반드시 지속적으로 지도 받기 위해 애쓰고 힘쓰고 노력하는 리더가 되기 바란다." (리처드 코킨, "교회성장 DNA")