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

We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful.

... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

A compassionate open home is part of Christian responsibility, and should be practiced up to the level of capacity.

There needs to be an order of office, but in every single office that is presented in the Scriptures there is the personal emphasis within that legal concept. In the Church the elder is an office-bearer. But both the preaching elders and the ruling elders are "ministers," and the word "minister" is a personal relationship, it does not speak of dominance. There is to be order in the Church, but the preaching elder or the ruling elder is to be a minister, with a loving personal relationship with those who are before him, even when they are wrong and need admonition.

If the church is what it should be, young people will be there. But they will not just 'be there' - they will be there with the blowing of horns and the clashing of high-sounding cymbals, and they will come dancing with flowers in their hair.

The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.