Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.

The church is the gospel made visible.

Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.

I love Iain Murray's definition of worldliness: towards the end of Evangelicalism Divided, he says that worldliness consists of loving idols and being at war with God. I think that's true in the lives of too many professing Christians today.

Discipling involves instruction and imitation.

As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.

Once we see more of our need and understand more of what Christ has done for us, he will become more precious to us. And this, in turn, will enable our obedience far more than sheer grunt effort.