Joseph Morecraft Quotes & Sayings

Civil government and economics and society change because theology changes. — Joseph C. Morecraft III

In this study, we will be attempting to answer the pivotal question: How does God want to be worshipped? How we want to worship God is irrelevant. — Joseph C. Morecraft III

Taking the 'desert island challenge' which leads Christians to submit their family life to Sola Scriptura inevitably leads them to desire to submit their corporate worship to Sola Scriptura.
(Excerpt from the forward of "How God Wants Us to Worship Him" by Joseph C. Morecraft) — Douglas W. Phillips

According to the Bible a tyrant is somebody, some civil magistrate that seeks to impose upon it's people another law than the law of God; that derives it policies and it's laws from another source of law, than the source of the law of God contained in Holy Scripture. — Joseph C. Morecraft III

The question remains: How does God want to be worshipped? Where can we go to find God's reply to that question? You know the only answer: to God's all-sufficient Word, the Bible. That God-breathed book is the comprehensive and completed revelation of the will of God for us by which we can be thoroughly equipped for every good work, including the good work of worship. — Joseph C. Morecraft III

The law you submit to uncritically indicates your religious commitment. — Joseph C. Morecraft III

Two hundred years from now people will find out how we have been influenced by our culture in ways we have yet to recognize and they'll wonder, "How can those people claim to be Christians who lived back there in 2009?". There will be things people will find out about us that we are too blind to see right now. — Joseph C. Morecraft III

The regulative principle may therefore be seen, in a particular sense, as a natural inference from the doctrine of total depravity. — Joseph C. Morecraft III

We need to understand that a man can never lay down his religion and act as a religionless person. — Joseph C. Morecraft III

Human beings, regenerate or unregenerate, have neither the right nor the competence to dictate to a sovereign God how He is to be worshipped. — Joseph C. Morecraft III

I believe the Reformation is greater than the revolution. — Joseph C. Morecraft III

We're not to do everything man tells us to do. We are to obey the Lord Jesus Christ, and our allegiance to the state is limited and defined by our superior allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ. — Joseph C. Morecraft III

Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the Reformed Faith in all its fullness. — Joseph C. Morecraft III