There are two main reasons why we may not be bringing forth the fruit we should. It may be because of ignorance, because we may never have been taught the meaning of the work of Christ for our present lives.

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

Killing of animals for food is one thing, but on the other hand they do not exist simply as things to be slaughtered. This is true of fishing, too. Many men fish and leave their victims to rot and stink. But what about the fish? Has he no rights - not to be romanticized as though he were a man - but real rights?

The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live -- this lost world -- means that we desert the people who need our greatest help.

Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.

The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong.

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.