Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced.

We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.

Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

Christianity does not claim to convey merely religious truth, but truth about all reality. This vision of reality is radically different from a secularist vision that wants Christianity to scuttle into the corner of the hearth by the coal shovel, conveniently out of the way of anything but private religious concerns

What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.

The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.