Nagelisms

Comment by William Weedon on April 8, 2008 at 6:53pm

When you begin with Christ, do you begin with God or with man?

Comment by William Weedon on April 8, 2008 at 6:53pm

I am making sure of the specificity of the locatedness of the gifts.

Comment by William Weedon on April 8, 2008 at 6:53pm

Faith minus Christ equals nothing.

Comment by William Weedon on April 8, 2008 at 6:54pm

And when last I saw him, he was showing me the flowers that Betsy had brought him. I asked him if he had recited his Wordsworth. His lip poked and he said: "I forgot." And then he began: "To me the meanest flower that grows..."

Comment by Alexander Lange on April 9, 2008 at 7:13pm

I myself have not been taught directly by dr. Nagel. However, my father who I admire was, and says he owes much of what he knows to Dr. Nagel. So i figure I owe Dr. Nagel a great deal for being instrumental in making my dad the awesome pastor that he is.

One Nagelism my father taught me was "Faith in the Way of the Law and Faith in the Way of the Gospel." I've been using that Nagelism ever since I began my studies in preperation for Seminary. Thank you, Dr. Nagel.

Comment by Pr. William M. Cwirla on April 10, 2008 at 10:08pm

As one who has taken, audited, or graded every Nagel course offered, and served as the good Doctor's research assistant for 2 1/2 years, I literally have a million of them. I've managed to expunge them from my active vocabulary, as I consider the slavish imitation of Dr. Nagel to be of the B-class Nagelite category, but every once and a while one will slip out, usually "in the way of the Gospel."

I will meter them out slowly, so as not to overwhelm.

Commenting on James 2:26:
"So faith is to works as the body is to breath. And you only take notice of your breathing when there is something wrong with the body."

Comment by Sam Powell on April 11, 2008 at 5:06am

I came to the seminary just before Dr. Nagel went into the hospital... but one of the highlights of my first year at CSL was walking across the quad and greeting Dr. Nagel and asking how he was. His response (in that beautiful Dr. Nagel voice... said while looking up at the building and the sky)... "I am baptized!" and he went on his way.

Comment by Christopher Gillespie on April 11, 2008 at 11:46am

I only had the pleasure of sitting in on an STM course last year. I quickly assimilated a few -isms. Luther exclaimed "No more mathematics!" Now if only I can remember the context....

Comment by Jim on April 11, 2008 at 11:48am

I remember after a long discussion (phone). He told me I was asking the wrong questions. I thought to myself how they could be the wrong question, since those where the ones I wanted to ask. I realized that they were wrong because they were not the best questions I could have asked to get the answers God wanted to give me.

Comment by Rich Futrell, Pastor on April 11, 2008 at 7:32pm

The doctrine of the Holy Ministry is a “means of grace” doctrine. If you are running this from any other worldview, it is not the Lord’s way.

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