The nations are not gathered in automatically. If God has promised to bless "all the families of the earth," he has promised to do so "through Abraham's seed" (Genesis 12:3, 22:18). Now we are Abraham's seed by faith, and the earth's families will be blessed only if we go to them with the gospel. That is God's plain purpose.

The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.

Although we have responsibilities to others, we are primarily accountable to God. It is before him that we stand, and to him that one day we must give an account. We should not therefore rate human opinion too highly.

Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner coherence, issuing in ethical conduct, resonating with the contemporary world and concerned for the greater glory of God.

The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.