A healthy relationship with God is built on the internal changes He brings about through Christ.

Christians must allow no unclean thing to interfere with a harmonious relationship with Christ.

Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency.

Believers should be more concerned for God's opinion of them than for what human opponents might do to their bodies.

Spiritual leadership ought to be given to those who have proven themselves under stress.

God chooses people not for what He can do for them, but for the good they can do for others.

Even guilty people deserve to be treated as those made in the image of God.