If you want to follow Jesus because He'll fix your marriage, if you want to follow Jesus because He'll give you a better life, that's idolatry. Follow Christ for the sake of Christ; He is worthy!

If a Work of God does NOT Continue, it was NEVER a Work of God.

We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.

Maybe that is why there are not a whole lot of problems between the church and worldly culture today, because we are not confronting the culture around us.

God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.

This Christianity is not a cultural thing. It is not something that should be just a small part of your life; it is not something that you do on Sunday... Christianity is not about you being just like the world all the time and then coming to church on Sunday. If that is your Christianity... you are not Christian.

The problem is, even when we preach the Gospel correctly, then we go to this thing on how to invite men and it's not biblical or historical. We get them to jump through some evangelical hoops and say, "yes" to the appropriate questions and we pope-ishly announce them to be saved.