Давайте же обратимся к Богу и попросим Его даровать нам и способность, и желание быть честными людьми в нашем разложившемся обществе. И, по Его благодати, давайте будем церковью, организацией, которая воздействует на этот мир вовсе не своей численностью; организацией, которая несет миру учение, способное этот мир изменить.
Воспрянь, Христов народ!
Вперед смелей гляди!
Свой разум, волю, сердце, жизнь —
Иисусу посвяти.
Воспрянь, Христов народ!
Заря уже взошла.
День братства смело возвещай,
Не бойся силы зла.
Воспрянь, Христов народ!
На церковь мир глядит.
Великий труд ей предстоит,
Кто место в ней займет?
Славь подвиги Христа,
Всегда иди за Ним!
Все козни, хитрости врага
С Христом мы победим.
Примечания
1
F.B.Meyer, Love to the Uttermost: Expositions of John 13–21 (New York: Revell, 1899), 135.
2
Jim Leffel and Dennis McCallum, “Postmodern Impact: Religion”, in Dennis McCallum, ed., The Death of Truth (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1996), 211.
3
Family Voice, July/August, 2001, 23.
4
S.D.Gade, When Tolerance Is No Virtue (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1993), 22.
5
Ibid., 28–29.
6
Ravi Zacharias, “An Ancient Message, through Modern Means, to a Postmodern Mind”, in D.A.Carson, ed., Telling the Truth: Evangelizing Postmoderns (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000), 24.
7
Ibid., 26.
8
Donal P.O’Mathuna, in “Postmodern Impact: Health Care”, in The Death of Truth , 60.
9
Ibid., 72.
10
George Barna, “Religious Beliefs Vary Widely by Denomination”, Barna Research Online, 25 June 2001, www.barna.org/cgi-bin.
11
Dwight Edwards, Revolution Within (Colorado Springs: Waterbrook, 2001), 24–25.
12
S.D.Gade, When Tolerance Is No Virtue , 17.
13
John Stott, God’s New Society: The Message of Ephesians (Downer’s Grove: InterVarsity, 1979), 172.
14
Ibid.
15
George Barna, “Practical Outcomes Replace Biblical Principles As the Moral Standard”, Barna Research Online, 10 September 2001. Accessed at www.barna.org.
16
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1960), 2:178-79.
17
Ibid., 177.
18
Ibid., 177-78.
19
Robert Bowman Jr., Orthodoxy and Heresy: A Biblical Guide to Doctrinal Discernment (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1992), 17.
20
John F. MacArthur Jr., “Discernment – Spiritual Survival for a Church in Crisis”, tape series (n.d.).
21
Erwin W. Lutzer, The Serpent of Paradise: The Incredible Story of How Satan’s Rebellion Serves God’s Purposes (Chicago: Moody, 1996).
22
Clifford Hill, Peter Fenwick, David Forbes, and David Noakes, Blessing the Church? (Guildford, Surrey [U.K.]: Eagle, 1995), 40–41.
23
Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity in Crisis (Eugene, Oreg.: Harvest, 1993). Это прекрасный пример учений и ересей так называемого «Движения веры». С ними полезно ознакомиться тем, кто серьезно думает о пользе разборчивости в наш век откровений, пророчеств, чудес и прочих глупостей.
24
Rolland Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (New York & Toronto: Mentor, 1950), 203.
25
Ibid.
26
Jay Adams, A Call to Discernment (Eugene, Oreg.: Harves, 1987), 31; цит. по John F. MacArthur in Reckless Faith: When the Church Loses Its Will to Discern (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 1994), 49–50.
27
Russ Wise, “The Boston Church,” www.probe.org/docs/boston.html; см. также www.reveal.org/abouticc/crossroadsera.html.
28
Bowman, Orthodoxy and Heresy , 50.
29
Скотт Хейфман, комментарии, высказанные по телефону в октябре 2001 г.
30
K. Neil Foster, Sorting Out the Supernatural (Camp Hill, Pa.: Christian Publications, 2001), 245.
31
Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity in Crisis (Eugene, Oreg.: Harvest, 1993), 82–83.
32
Ted Brooks, I Was a Flaky Preacher (Belleville, Ontario: Guardian, 1999), 38.
33
Ibid., 43.
34
Peter Fenwick, in Clifford Hill, Peter Fenwick, David Forbes, and David Noakes, Blessing the Church? (Guildford, Surrey [U.K.]: Eagle, 1995), 60.
35
Foster, Sorting Out the Supernatural , 22.
36
Chicago Sun-Times, 12 October 1998, 11.
37
Helen Schuchman, A Course in Miracles (Glen Ellyn, Ill.: Foundation for Inner Peace, 1992), viii.
38
B.B.Warfield, Counterfeit Miracles (London: Banner of Truth, 1918), 3.
39
Ibid.
40
Ibid., 20.
41
Ibid., 26.
42
Hudson Taylor, цит. по K. Neil Foster, Sorting Out the Supernatural (Camp Hill, Pa.: Christian Publications, 2001), 8.
43
Peter Wagner, How to Have a Healing Ministry Without Making Your Church Sick! (Ventura, Calif.: Regal, 1989), 228; цит. по John H. Armstrong, “In Search of Spiritual Power”, in Michael Scott Horton, ed., Power Religion: The Selling Out of the Evangelical Church? (Chicago: Moody, 1992), 74.
44
Bob Jones, “Visions and Revelations”; audiotape, 1989; цит. по John H. Armstrong, “In Search of Spiritual Power”, Power Religion , 75.
45
John Wimber, цит. по C. Peter Wagner, The Third Wave of the Holy Spirit (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Servant, 1999), 96; в John H. Armstrong, “In Search of Spiritual Power”, Power Religion , 76.
46
John H. Armstrong, “In Search of Spiritual Power”, Power Religion , 76.
47
John Wimber, Church Planting Seminar (3 audiotapes, 1981); цит. по John Goodwin in Media Spotlight (1990), 24; in John H. Armstrong, “In Search of Spiritual Power”, Power Religion , 76–77.
48
Alan Cole, The Southern Cross (April 1987), 13 (курсив его); цит. по D.A.Carson in “The Purpose of Signs and Wonders in the New Testament”, Power Religion , 95.
49
Don Carson, “The Purpose of Signs and Wonders in the New Testament”, Power Religion , 95.
50
Ibid., 94.
51
Charles Farah, “A Critical Analysis: The ’Roots and Fruits’ of Faith-Formula Theology”, in D.A.Carson, ed., Showing the Spirit: A Theological Exposition of 1 Corinthians 12–14 (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1987), 177.
52
D.A.Carson, Showing the Spirit , 39–40.
53
Robert G. DeMoss Jr., Learn to Discern (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992), 9. (Многие идеи о том, как нам контролировать СМИ в своих домах, изложенные в данной главе, почерпнуты из этой очень полезной книги).
54
Death by Entertainment: How the Media Manipulates the Masses (Hemet, Calif.: Jeremiah Films, 2000), videotape.
55
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, “An Account of a Conversation Concerning a Right Regulation of Government for the Good of Mankind. In a Letter to the Marquis of Montrose” (1704); in Political Works (1732), pt. 7.
56
DeMoss, Learn to Discern , 12.
57
Death by Entertainment .
58
Richard Keyes, цит. по Ronald Dunn, Surviving Friendly Fire (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2001), 76.
59
DeMoss, Learn to Discern, 86.
60
Ibid., 89.
61
Ibid., 100.
62
Ibid., 103.
63
Ibid., 108.
64
Peter Rowan, цит. по Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (New York: Ballantine, 1999), 174.
65
People, 30 October 2000, 108.
66
Robert G. DeMoss, Learn to Discern (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992), 37.
