It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub.

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.