Do we claim to believe in God? He's a missionary God. You tell me you're committed to Christ. He's a missionary Christ. Are you filled with the Holy Spirit? He's a missionary Spirit. Do you belong to the church? It's a missionary society. And do you hope to go to heaven when you die? It's a heaven into which the fruits of world mission have been and will be gathered.

Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.

Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.

Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.

Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience.

Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.

Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.