J. I. Packer Quotes about Church

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The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .

The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .

J. I. Packer

Christian, Faithful, Church

J. I. Packer (2001). “Concise Theology: A Guide to Historic Christian Beliefs”, p.194, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

J. I. Packer

Church, Would Be, World

God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.

J. I. Packer

Humble, Work Out, Church

J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.106, InterVarsity Press

The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.

J. I. Packer

Two, Church, Needs

J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.69, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.

J. I. Packer

Ignorance, Church, Empires

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

J. I. Packer

Church, Newton, Canon

J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.

J. I. Packer

Church, Doctrine, Realizing

The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today largely lack: and that is one reason why our faith is so feeble and our worship so flabby... When a person in the church, let alone the person in the street, uses the word God, the thought is rarely of divine majesty.

J. I. Packer

Christian, Greatness, Church