Before we can see the cross as something done for us we have to see it as something done by us
We are sent into the world like Jesus to serve, for this is the natural expression of love for our neighbours. We love, We go, We serve.
Every Christian should be both conservative and radical, conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
The truth is there are such things as Christian tears but too few of us ever weep them.
His authority of each allows us to dare to go to the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our hope of success and his presence with us leaves us with no other choice.
Christian giving is to be marked by self sacrifice, self forgetfulness but not self congratulation
So there is such a thing as perfect hatred just as there is such a thing as righteous anger,but it is a hatred for Gods enemies not our own enemies. It is entirely free of spite, rancor and vindictiveness and is freed only by love for Gods honour and glory.
The incentive to peace making is love but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits both love and justice and so the pain of the cross.
Faith is a reasoning, a trust that reckons thoughtfully and confidently on the trustworthiness of God.
Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only but of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without therefore being converted to our neighbour.
Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of being obedient.
Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable belief systems.
It is impossible to pray for somebody without loving him and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.
Prayer is the very way that God has chosen for us to express our conscious need of him and our humble dependence on him.
We must never think of salvation as a kind of transaction between God and us in which he contributes grace and we contribute faith. For we are dead and had to be quickened before we could believe.-No Christs apostles clearly teach elsewhere that saving faith too is Gods gracious gift.
We must allow Gods word to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our pattern of thought and behaviour.
The modern world detests authority but worships relevence. Our Christian conviction is that the bible is both authority and relevance and that the secret of both is in Jesus Christ.