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.

The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save.

Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft.

Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.

Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.

The question is not so much what the hand is doing (passing over some cash or a check) but what the heart is thinking while the hand is doing it.