Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft.

Circumcision stands for a religion of human achievement, of what man can do by his own good works; Christ stands for a religion of divine achievement, of what God has done through the finished work of Christ.

God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.

In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus.

These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them.