 | Michael W. Apple - 2001 - 324 頁
...Assembly's Shorter Catechism, including questions such as "What is the chief end of Man?" The answer is "Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever." Another question asks, "What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?" This... | |
 | Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) - 2000 - 348 頁
...famous section is the first question and answer of the Shorter Catechism: "What is the chief end of man? Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever." THE SHORTER CATECHISM Q. 1. What is the chief end of man? A. Man's chief end is to glorify God,1 and... | |
 | G. Thompson Brown - 2001 - 150 頁
...first things have passed away." (Rev. 21:3^, NRSV) Question: What is the chief end of man? Answer: Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever. (The Shorter Catechism, 1646) Heaven is not dull; it is not static; it is not monochrome. It is an... | |
 | Norman Maclean - 2009 - 241 頁
...is the chief end of man?" And we answered together so one of us could carry on if the other forgot, "Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever." This always seemed to satisfy him, as indeed such a beautiful answer should have, and besides he was... | |
 | J. Dwight Pentecost - 2001 - 292 頁
...motive in the life of the child of God must be to glorify God. CHAPTER WHAT IS FELLOWSHIP? / John 1:1-10 MAN'S CHIEF END is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. God has revealed His glory to men, and men are to respond to that revelation by ascribing glory, majesty,... | |
 | Richard Owen Roberts - 2002 - 372 頁
...immensely through all the years since: "What is man's chief end?" The answer to the catechism question: "Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever." Frankly, we need desperately to face this fact. Our nature as sinners is to please and glorify ourselves.... | |
 | Nancy Leigh DeMoss - 2002 - 196 頁
...underscores this by beginning with these two foundational questions: Q. 1. What is the chief end of man? A. Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. Q. 2. What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy Him? A. The word of God, which... | |
 | Hughes Oliphant Old - 2002 - 214 頁
...to live to the praise of God's glory (Eph. 1:12). When the Westminster Shorter Catechism teaches us, "Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever,"' it gives witness to this same basic principle; God created us to worship him. Surely it is here that... | |
 | William E. Phipps - 2002 - 268 頁
...Sheppard and his parents later attended. Both could recite the Westminster Catechism and believed that "man's chief end is to glorify' God and to enjoy him forever." In 1906 the Sheppards tore themselves away from their daughter, whom they left with relatives in Staunton,... | |
 | Jaroslav Pelikan - 2005 - 678 頁
...inadequate. For, in the familiar opening words of a companion work, The Westminster Shorter Catechism, "Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever." As it adds later in explanation of what it means both to glorify God and to enjoy God, "the duty which... | |
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Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever. 
