Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

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

I hesitate to add, but I will, that this is fun. God means Christianity to be fun. There is to be a reality of love and communication in the Christian-to-Christian relationship, individually and corporately, which is completely and truly personal.

We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in the direction of statism. This is so because humanists, having no god, must put something at the center, and it is inevitably society, government, or the state.

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.