The major mark of justified believers is joy, especially joy in God himself. We should be the most positive people in the world. For the new community of Jesus Christ is characterized not by a self-centered triumphalism but by a God-centered worship.

We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love.

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

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.

If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.

We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.

The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our Father but every other Christian believer in the world, whatever his nation or denomination, has become our brother or sister in Christ. But it is no good supposing that membership of the universal Church of Christ is enough; we must belong to some local branch of it. Every Christian's place is in a local church. sharing in its worship, its fellowship, and its witness.