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   The following article is from the BIBLE & LIFE website, by David Dunlap in Land O' Lakes, Florida: https://bibleandlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Assembly-WritersCalvinism-June-2023.pdf BIBLICAL DOCTRINE & NEW TESTAMENT ASSEMBLY LIFE      Vol. 30, No. 3 June 1, 2023   Calvinism & the Plymouth Brethren Movement Compiled by David Dunlap Many well-known Bible teachers and leaders connected to the Plymouth Brethren movement did not hold to a rigid form Calvinism. This article lists quotations from many who did not teach or hold to extreme Calvinism. Plymouth Brethren leaders greatly influenced the evangelical movement from the 1800s through the 1950s. Their world-wide influence is still felt to the present day. This quotation list is in no particular order.   William MacDonald —(1917-2007) Bible School President “Many are called is that the gospel invitation goes out to many. But few are chosen. The expression ‘few a...

Dr. David Livingstone (1813-1873), was a Scottish doctor, missionary and explorer in Africa. His legacy and impact on missionary vision and sacrificial labor for Christ is still with us. The following are quotes from him. “I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time or eternity."  “God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.”  “All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.” “There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.”  “The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.”   “I have found that I have no unusual endowments of in...

"I cannot tell you what joy it gave me to bring the first soul to the Lord Jesus Christ. I have tasted almost all the pleasures that this world can give. I do not suppose there is one that I have not experienced, but I can tell you that those pleasures were as nothing compared to the joy that the saving of that one soul gave me." "I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different." Expressing the aggressive leadership that was his in spiritual endeavors, C.T. Studd wrote: "Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we ...