The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servants’ quarters.

We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God.

Worship is a meeting at the centre so that our lives are centred in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God.

The one who knows and fears the Lord of Hosts need fear no other.

The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be remarkable enough to cause grudging admiration, astonished curiosity or threatening hostility.

Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.

There is a calamitous difference between a people who have been immersed in paganism for centuries and a post-Christian society. While the culture of the latter may carry a deep tradition influenced by Christian values, its posture of rebellion will give it a direction that is more explicitly and consciously anti-Christian.