Richard D. Phillips Quotes

#1. In our witness, we are to shine not our own light but Christ's light. Just as a lamp requires oil, we depend on our fellowship with Christ and the Holy Spirit's enlivening ministry through God's Word in order that Christ's light may shine through us.

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#2. Believing in Christ is the world's great need, and our great obligation is to tell all people that they need to do so.

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#3. Love between a man and a woman simply cannot work without love for God at the center of the relationship; by means of his curses, God mercifully brings

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#4. Of all men, Christians should work especially hard, giving more than an honest day's work for a day's wage.

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#5. We are not called to give lifestyle tips or the self-help plumbing that today's worldly men and women crave. The Bible says the gospel is the "power of God for salvation to everyone who believes." (Romans 1:16b), so we must proclaim it.

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#6. John Calvin said: "It is the nature of faith that we want to bring others to share eternal life with us when we have become partakers of it. The knowledge of God cannot lie buried and inactive in our hearts and not be made known to men."6
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#7. Our witness must center not on our experience but on the facts of Christ's coming to this world.

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#8. Our calling in life really is this simple (although not therefore easy): We are to devote ourselves to working/building and keeping/protecting everything placed into our charge.

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