God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.

The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that need, but with the writer of the news and the sender of its heralds: God himself.

A Church worshipping as a Creature of the Word doesn't show up to perform or be entertained; she comes desperate and needy, thirsty for grace, receiving from The Lord and the body of Christ, and then gratefully receiving what she needs as she offers her praise- the only proper response to the God who saves us.

While the good news of the gospel may not appeal to everyone, the bad news of the gospel still applies to everyone.

I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification.

Trying to make the Gospel relevant is like trying to make water wet.

"Being a good steward" and "placing your hope in" is not the same thing.