Catherine Booth
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Don’t Be Afraid to Step Out
Until the church—the people of God—have explored all the ideas that are in the divine mind for the propagation of His kingdom in the earth, somebody must always be receiving new light and making new departures, and there has never been a single instance in the history of the church in which this has been done without nearly the whole of that generation raising a hue and cry against it. Yet how would it be possible for God to bring about a revolution—a true revival—a grand aggressive movement of Christianity, without giving new light and calling somebody to some path in advance of all that has gone before?
And what does it matter who? Whether it is Peter or John or Martin Luther or George Fox or John Wesley or William Booth? What does it matter, as long as God does it?
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The Nature of True Repentance
People generally are all at sea on this subject, as though insisting that repentance is an arbitrary arrangement on the part of God. I believe God has made human salvation as easy as the almighty, infinite, mind could make it! But there is a necessity that we “repent and turn to God” (Acts 26:20, KJV).
Since repentance is an indispensable condition of salvation, let us glance at it for a moment and try to find out what repentance really is. How full of confusion the world and the church are on this subject!
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Don’t Be Afraid to Step Out
Until the church—the people of God—have explored all the ideas that are in the divine mind for the propagation of His kingdom in the earth, somebody must always be receiving new light and making new departures, and there has never been a single instance in the history of the church in which this has been done without nearly the whole of that generation raising a hue and cry against it. Yet how would it be possible for God to bring about a revolution—a true revival—a grand aggressive movement of Christianity, without giving new light and calling somebody to some path in advance of all that has gone before?
And what does it matter who? Whether it is Peter or John or Martin Luther or George Fox or John Wesley or William Booth? What does it matter, as long as God does it?
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The Nature of True Repentance
Repentance is an indispensable condition of entering the kingdom of God. People generally are all at sea on this subject, as though insisting that repentance is an arbitrary arrangement on the part of God. I believe God has made human salvation as easy as the almighty, infinite, mind could make it! But there is a …
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What Will You Risk to Be a Pioneer for God?
Until the church–the people of God–have explored all the ideas that are in the divine mind for the propagation of His kingdom in the earth, somebody must always be receiving new light and making new departures, and there has never been a single instance in the history of the church in which this has been …