There is a sad myth going around today – the myth of neutrality. According to this myth, the secular world gives every point of view an equal chance to be heard. And it works fairly well – unless you are a Christian.
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful – Christian community is the final apologetic.
Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.
Art is a reflection of God’s creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.
If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.
In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost.
This shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious liberty.
We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful.
We as Bible-believing evangelical Christians are locked in a battle. This is not a friendly gentleman’s discussion. It is a life and death conflict between the spiritual hosts of wickedness and those who claim the name of Christ.
I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist.
Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose – to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.