We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.

As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins.

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.

Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.