Os Guinness
Os Guinness
Os Guinnessis an English author and social critic...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth30 September 1941
CountryIreland
jesus pat radical
Jesus called for nothing like this, and Pat Robertson sounded more like one of the radical imams.
serious theology evangelical
Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.
irrelevance effort faithful
By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful, but irrelevant; by our determined efforts to redefine outselves in ways that are more compelling to the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and our relevance. Our crying need is to be faithful as well as relevant
addiction alcohol today
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
opposites self have-faith
The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
arrogance mystery forget
We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
excellent humans
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
idolatry mistaken dominant
Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations
diversity safe eras
...making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era....
wise strong motivation
We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism or failure. But if the single motive is the master motivation of God's calling, the answer is yes. In any and all situations, both today and tomorrow's tomorrow, God's call to us is the unchanging and ultimate whence, what, why, and whither of our lives. Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.
unstable source humans
God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.
lectures quarrel
I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.
class few gone known large middle people poor relatively wealthy
American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
citizens depending good government honest lots people worked
There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.