The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God's, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.

Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.