Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?

The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.

It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.

If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs - you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.

Jesus is the author of faith, the provider of faith, and the object of faith.

An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.