Tell me what the world is saying today, and I’ll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years.
If the church is what it should be, young people will be there. But they will not just ‘be there’ – they will be there with the blowing of horns and the clashing of high-sounding cymbals, and they will come dancing with flowers in their hair.
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship – and not as ends in themselves.
What we, the Christian community, have to do is to refuse men the right to ravish our land, just as we refuse them the right to ravish our women; to insist that somebody accepts a little less profit by not exploiting nature.
We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we really know their origin-who they are. God tells man who he is. God tells us that He created man in His image. So man is something wonderful.
Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.
Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.
In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.
The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.
The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God’s world because God made us to be creative.
The overall way of thinking in the United States has shifted away from basic Biblical values, and the media share in the responsibility for this change.
There is no use of Evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of Evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core, namely the Scriptures.
In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.
Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.
True spirituality consists in living moment to moment by the grace of Jesus Christ.
The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.
The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.
So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.
If you want a significant man, with absolutes, morality, and meaning, then you must have what the Bible insists upon – that God will judge men justly, and they will not be able to raise their voices because of the base upon which He judges them.