Roland Allen
Roland Allen
Roland Allen was an English missionary...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth29 December 1868
spiritual men church
Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.
spiritual men illumination
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.
higher men moral turn
What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is only a higher moral truth.
certainly creates help holy presence recognize spirit unity
It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create.
among church clergy close experience life living men needs ordinary people personal sharing touch trials understanding
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.
powerful believe teaching
Of course all advance depends upon money, when we depend upon paid workers for any advance. Teach men as one of their first lessons in the gospel that pastoral work and evangelistic work ought to be paid, and will they not believe it? They would all believe it if the Holy Ghost did not dispute our teaching. It is a powerful proof of the presence and grace of the Holy Ghost that they do not all believe it and act accordingly.
reality wrath race
There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race.
want method results
We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.
reality needs doctrine
What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.
men holiness redemption
The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.
christian prayer religion
Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.
believe thinking profound
I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.
church world firsts
The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work.
preaching-the-gospel soul thrones
If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.