The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.

There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.

The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.

As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony

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

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.