“Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain.22”

“Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God”

“El punto que señalamos acerca de Finney se refiere simplemente a que los evangelistas de avivamiento hicieron de la salvación el propósito prioritario de Dios. La salvación se convirtió en algo que cobró vida propia, a menudo aislada de una experiencia cristiana holística, y por lo tanto se llevaron a cabo muchas innovaciones para facilitar la experiencia de conversión, pero no una experiencia cristiana completa. El propósito eterno de Dios no estaba para nada dentro de la perspectiva. En lo que tiene que ver con el pragmatismo moderno, los cristianos deberían determinar por ellos mismos si alguna práctica en particular es del Espíritu Santo o si se trata de una mera ingenuidad humana en operación.”

“According to the best available scholarship, here is the order in which they were written:1050 Galatians 1 Thessalonians 2 Thessalonians 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Romans Colossians Philemon Ephesians Philippians 1 Timothy Titus 2 Timothy”

“We Protestants have replaced some of the grander architectural embellishments with a specific use of music intended to achieve the same end. Consequently, in Protestant circles “good” worship leaders are those who can use music to evoke what other traditions use space to evoke; specifically, a soulish sense of worshipfulness.227 But this is disjointed from everyday life and is inauthentic. Jonathan Edwards rightfully pointed out that emotions are transient and cannot be used to measure one’s relationship with God.228”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” —Socrates”

“Because the presbyters were the ones administering the Lord’s Supper, they began to be called priests.560 More startling, the bishop came to be regarded as the high priest who could forgive sins!561 All of these trends obscured the New Testament reality that all believers are priests unto God.”

“The social location of the church meeting expresses and influences the character of the church.221”

“This does not mean that the knowledge of the world, church history, theology, philosophy, and the Scriptures is without value. Such knowledge can be very useful.[105] But it is not central. Theological competence and a high-voltage intellect alone do not qualify a person to serve in God’s house.”

“Unlike so many, we do not peddle the Word of God for profit.” —Paul of Tarsus in 2 Corinthians 2:17, NIV”

“In Jesus Christ, you and I have received something far greater than a personal Savior. We have received Jesus Christ’s very own relationship with His Father! According to New Testament teaching, what the Father was to Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ is to you and me. Because we are now “in Christ,” the Father loves us and treats us just as He does His own Son. In other words, we share and participate in Christ’s perfect relationship with His Father.”

“Plato and Aristotle (both disciples of Socrates) are the fathers of contemporary Christian education.1030 To use a biblical metaphor, present-day Christian education, whether it be seminarian or Bible college, is serving food from the wrong tree: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil rather than the tree of life.1031 Contemporary theological learning is essentially cerebral. It can be called “liquid pedagogy.”1032 We pry open people’s heads, pour in a cup or two of information, and close them up again. They have the information, so we mistakenly conclude the job is complete.”

“Worship is what you do when you’ve heard Jesus speak. A worship life is what you live when you walk with Jesus.”

“For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe that “Unless I believe, I shall not understand.” —ANSELM OF CANTERBURY1”

“There is within you a yearning for the divine that nothing else can satisfy.”

“The more we are the Presence of Christ for others, the more present we are for Christ to speak to us.”

“In sum, if Jesus isn’t surprising you, you’ve probably stopped growing spiritually.”

“It is not the job of reviewers to flatter the egos of writers.”

“If we can’t be honest about the books we read, what’s the point of reviewing in the first place?”

“Every revival and restoration in the church has been a rediscovery of some aspect of Christ in the process of answering this critical question. In fact, three features are present in every awakening in the history of the Christian church: (1) a rediscovery of the “living Word,” or the Scriptures and its authority; (2) a rediscovery of the living Christ and His supremacy; and (3) a rediscovery of the living Spirit and the Spirit’s gifts and power to manifest Christ in the context of that culture. God has a history of taking seriously people who take the eternal Word seriously.”