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11/08/2025

11/06/2025

When Kant the philospher said, "Two things strike me with awe: the starry heavens above and the moral law within," did he mean that the laws of those worlds are equally dependable and equally authoritative and equally inescapable? Is there a way and not-the-way written in both?

From The Way by E. Stanley Jones

10/25/2025

Enjoy this article introducing E. Stanley Jones to a new generation.

https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/did-you-know-stanley-jones

Thanks to Robert G. Tuttle Jr. for items from his biography of E. Stanley Jones, "In Our Time." Dr. Tuttle is a beloved pastor, professor, author, and evangelist who loves to tell the story of Jesus and His Love. He taught at Fuller Theological Seminary, Asbury Theological Seminary, among others, and has spoken at countless churches, colleges, and universities.

05/19/2025

05/19/2025

모든 종교는 인간이 하나님을 찾는 여정을 가르치지만, 복음은 하나님께서 인간을 찾으시는 이야기를 전합니다. 그러므로 세상에는 많은 종교가 존재하지만, 복음은 오직 하나뿐입니다. 우리는 자격이라는 사다리를 한 칸씩 올라가 꼭대기에 이르러 하나님을 발견하는 것이 아닙니다. 오히려 우리는 사다리의 맨 아래에서 하나님을 만납니다. 하나님께서는 성육신하심으로 그 사다리를 내려오셔서, 우리에게 구원을 베푸십니다. 그것도 그것을 받을 만한 자격이 있는 자로서가 아니라, 죄인된 우리에게 말입니다. "나는 의인을 부르러 온 것이 아니요, 죄인을 부르러 왔노라."(마태복음 9:13) 주님께서는 못 박힌 손으로 우리에게 구속을 내미십니다 — 그것은 값없이, 거저 주시는 선물입니다.

04/19/2025

E. Stanley Jones' Public Lectures and Question & Answer Sessions

Following the spiritual transformation talked about earlier, the focus of E. Stanley Jones' work during the 1920s and 1930s was India. The first point of contact between Jones and most Indians was large evangelistic lectures.

Jones’ public lectures followed a standard pattern. Events centered on a specific city for a week or weekend. Jones preached each morning in gatherings that were specifically designed for local Christian communities. Evening lectures focused on topics of interest to local intellectuals from other religious traditions. While the topics in the evening varied, they always included Jones sharing his experience of how faith in Christ affected his life. The entire week or weekend was facilitated or chaired by local persons, many of whom were not Christian. Lectures usually took place in public halls, open spaces, Hindu temples, or schools and almost never in churches. The goal was to encourage persons from other religious traditions to come and listen to the evening lectures.

These public meetings were different from other large evangelistic gatherings of the day, both in India and around the world. Jones did not refer to them as “crusades” but rather as “lectures.” First, Jones believed the term “crusade” was highly problematic, being so associated with Western imperialism that the negative connotations could not be overcome.

Normally, E. Stanley Jones would speak for 45-60 minutes. He rarely concluded with a
traditional evangelistic “call” to Christian faith, as did the mass meetings of the day. Rather,
he closed with a time of questions and answers. Questions were either submitted ahead of time or voiced in the public session. This was followed by an invitation for anyone interested in hearing more about Christ to join him and others for further conversation.

While Jones would not critique other traditions in these question and answer sessions, many in the audience frequently critiqued his Christian faith. He welcomed this challenge because his goal was to express his experience of Christ in the public lectures and then provide avenue for others to “break” it if they could. These “grilling” sessions as he called them usually lasted from 1-2 hours.

Jones believed that his primary intended audience was educated Indians, in stark contrast to the Indian mass Christian meetings of the day, which focused on poorer populations. The educated population tended to be people, usually men, of influence in the community. Jones thought that engaging
community leaders was critical to overcome barriers to conversion that often kept entire communities from making public faith commitments for Christ.

From a conference paper entitled "The Spiritual Vision and Mission of E. Stanley Jones" written by Tom Albin in 2013. The complete article can be found at:https://oimts.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/2013-4-albin.pdf

08/17/2024

The Kingdom of God is the most astoundingly radical proposal ever presented to the human race. It means nothing less than the replacing of the present world order by the Kingdom of God. It is the endeavor to call men back from the present unnatural, unworkable world order to a new one based on new principles, embodying a new Spirit and led by a new Person.

From "Christ at the Round Table" by E. Stanley Jones

06/29/2024

Affirmation for the Day: Whether I have little or much is not the chief concern, but Who has my little or my much.

From "The Word Became Flesh" by E. Stanley Jones

06/26/2024

There are four pillars upon which Christ's gospel rests: His Life, His Cross, His Resurrection, and His Coming into the lives of men -- Pentecost. The gospel rests upon all four. Take one away and you have a crippled gospel -- a gospel insufficient to meet human need.

From "Christ of Every Road" by E. Stanley Jones.

05/18/2024

The fruits of conversion:

The second basic change is the change of relationship to yourself. You have been forgiven by God and now you can and do forgive yourself.

All self-hate, self-despising, self-rejection drop away, and you accept yourself in God, respect yourself, and love yourself. "I'm going to love myself more," said a transformed person.

From "Conversion" by E. Stanley Jones

05/15/2024

God is all that is good. God has created all that is made. God loves all that he has created. And so anyone, in loving God, loves all his fellow creatures [and] loves all that is. All those who are on the spiritual path contain the whole of creation, and the Creator. That is because God is inside us, and inside God is everything. And so whoever loves God loves all that is.

By Julian of Norwich

05/11/2024

Prayer for the Day: You Save Me
1 Thessalonians 5: 15-22
O Jesus, Lord and Savior, I thank You that I can call You Savior, for You save me now -- save me from what I don't want to be to what I want to be. Without You my life would be a mess. With You, everything. Amen.

From "The Word Became Flesh" by E. Stanley Jones