P.T. Forsyth on Human-Centered “Christianity”
“Lay Religion” in the Person and Place of Jesus Christ: The Congregational Union Lecture for 1909, P.T. Forsyth, 1909 [This essay discussing “lay religion” which is essentially a Christianity with...
View ArticleThe Church is Logocentric
(This is the third lesson in the series “The Church and Discipleship”. The previous lesson can be found here: http://memoirandremains.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/the-church-is-doxological-3/ The church is...
View ArticleWith Preaching Christianity Stands or Falls
The present world of the orator may be the world of action, or of art. He may speak of affairs, of nature, of imagination. In the pulpit he may be what is called a practical preacher …. But the only...
View ArticleAs if faith did not mean
“If Nonconformity has become weakened for the time, it is because Christianity has become with so many merely a religion and not a gospel. It is an ideal and not a power, a charity and not a faith. It...
View ArticleThe Christian Preacher is Not
The Christian preacher is not the successor of the Greek orator, but of the Hebrew prophet. The orator comes with but an inspiration, the prophet comes with a revelation. In so far as the preacher and...
View ArticleWhat is the use of captains who …
P.T. Forsyth, Positive Preaching and Modern Mind, “The Preacher and the Age” Moreover, let the religious public at least have some consideration for its ministry, which it irritates and debases by...
View ArticleThe Greatest and Finest Product of Human History
My contention would be that, apart from such a position as I desire to bring to your notice—some real apostolic belief in the real work of Jesus Christ—apart from that no Church can continue to exist....
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