From time to time I have quoted from The Losungen here, a lectionary of daily readings published by the Moravian Church. The Moravians are the result of the Christian community-building efforts of Count Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700-1760). Like many of the other Protestant Reformers, Zinzendorf did not set out to "found" a denomination, but grateful followers tend to perpetutate the ways of their leaders, and the rest is history.
Here are some of my favorite quotes from Zinzendorf:
"I have but one passion - it is He, He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ..."
"Our method of proclaiming salvation is this: to point out to every heart the loving Lamb, who died for us, and although He was the Son of God, offered Himself for our sins...by the preaching of His blood, and of His love unto death, even the death of the cross, never, either in discourse or in argument, to digress even for a quarter of an hour from the loving Lamb: to name no virtue except in Him, and from Him and on His account - to preach no commitment except faith in Him; no other justification but that he atoned for us; no other sanctification but the privilege to sin no more; no other happiness but to be near Him, to think of Him and do His pleasure; so other self-denial but to be deprived of Him and His blessings; no other calamity but to displease Him; no other life but in Him."
"There can be no Christianity without community."
The is the first in a series of five posts taken from a chapel program prepared for Redeemer Christian School, Mesa, Arizona, on "The Voices of the Great Awakening."
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