After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We evangelicals also know how to avoid the sharp point of obedience by means of fine and intricate explanations. These are tailor-made for the flesh. They excuse disobedience, comfort carnality and make the words of Christ of none effect. And the essence of it all is that Christ simply could not have meant what He said. His teachings are accepted even theoretically only after they have been weakened by interpretation.

God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.

No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.

The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.

Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.

The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's will and did it. Their people followed them - sometimes to triumph, oftener to insults and public persecution - and their sufficient reward was the satisfaction of being right in a wrong world!