God's eternal plan has always been to display his glory not just through individuals but through a corporate body.

Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph.

People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense.

I heard about a pastor in a church of 5,000 people who employed two seminary students whose main responsibility was to get four new people baptized each week. When asked, "What happens if they can't meet the quota?", his response was, "Then I'll find two students who can". This man wasn't even remotely interested in true gospel preaching. He was results-driven.

For a Christian, our fears about the future are rooted in those places where our will differs from God's will.

I assume that normally the Lord will be bringing people to himself through the instrumentality of the preached word. However, we have to be very careful that we don't assume that if we are 'X' faithful in evangelism, then we will see 'Y' results right now. It doesn't work like that.

If you have no interest in actually committing yourself to an actual group of gospel-believing, Bible-teaching Christians, you might question whether you belong to the body of Christ at all!