The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

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

The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.

Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.

So, because in no other person but Jesus of Nazareth did God first become human (in his birth), then bear our sins (in his death), then conquer death (in his resurrection) and then enter his people (by his Spirit), he is uniquely able to save sinners. Nobody else has his qualifications.

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.