Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross.

In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.

Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.

When a man comes under the blood of Christ, his whole capacity as a man is refashioned. His soul is saved, yes, but so are his mind and his body. True spirituality means the lordship of Christ over the total man.

So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.

The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle.

In the 20th century, evangelical Christians in America have naively accepted the role assigned to us by an anti-religious, anti-Christian consensus in our society. We have been relegated to a cultural backwater, where we are meant to paddle around content in the knowledge that we are merely allowed to exist.