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Chapter Plodding (No. 6): The Reluctant Evangelist
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Chapter Plodding (No. 6): The Reluctant Evangelist

Broad Oak Piety
Dec 5, 2018
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Chapter Plodding (No. 6): The Reluctant Evangelist
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We are in chapter five of Coekin's book, The Reluctant Evangelist. I really loved this chapter because Coekin spends a few moments working through a doctrine of God that is often neglected: the doctrine of divine simplicity. We also get a heightened sense of God's sovereignty. Here are a few key takeaways from this chapter:

  • "God's centre is everywhere but his circumference is nowhere" (55)

  • All of God's being is "personally present in His simplicity". (55)

  • God is His attributes. He does not divide Himself.

  • "Nothing and nowhere in the universe exists except by God's personal presence to sustain and govern it." (55)

  • Since God is everywhere "our most private gossip, hidden jealousy, secret lusts, and forgotten cruelty- all of these are said, thought and done permanently in his presence." (56)

  • "The distance between us and maggots is smaller than the difference between God and us." (57)

  • God "previously arranged for this particular giant fish [the fish that swallowed Jonah] to take this particular gulp of water in this particular spot in the sea at this particular moment in history." (59)

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