Dave Bowen delighted us with this quotation from twentieth century preacher Vance Havner: "Anyone who doubts that the dead can be raised to life again have not seen a congregation at the end of a typical church service."
In reading about this great preacher, I found a few more jewels.
This one is often quoted, but I never knew it was from Havner:
The preacher’s job is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.
On the necessity of right fellowship:
People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter. It is possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable.
On Christian obedience:
I have read of a Coast Guard crew summoned on a stormy night to rescue survivors from a sinking vessel. One member of the crew was fearful: “Captain,” he moaned, “we’ll never get back.” “We don’t have to come back,” was the reply, “we only have to go.”
And my favorite, a clear challenge to Dove Mountaineers:
Somebody asked a prominent figure of that day, “What do you think of civilization?” He replied, “I think it’s a good idea. Why doesn’t someone start it?”
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