The Bible instills in us the knowledge of God. If we do know him, then our character is transformed, and we can confront the exigent contemporary problems as the people of God, not as people armed with a comprehensive book of casuistic answers.
Azurdia, A. G., III. (1998). Spirit
"Preaching, in one sense, merely discharges the firearm that God has loaded in the silent place. The successful volley does not mean that we have passed homiletics but rather that we have been with God."
Azurdia, A. G., III. (1998). Spirit Empowered Preaching:
"That haunting dilemma, common to every preacher of the gospel, drives us to seek an answer to the following question: by what means will we who are powerless accomplish the work that God Himself has burdened us to do?"
Azurdia, A. G., III. (1998). Spirit Empowered Preaching
Paul Washer gets it right again: I don't want revival...I want Christ! If we have Christ, there will be a revival. - SermonQuotes - https://t.co/dvi2cpxUYV via @sermonquotes
"There is something in fallen human nature that loves a lie and is willing to follow it, no matter where it may lead. But the success of the apostates is only temporary, for their judgment is coming."Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 2, p. 557). Wheaton
The terminal illness of the old ecumenism was triggered by the entrenched habit of believing that the embodiment of the body of Christ depends largely upon deft organizational management, human ingenuity, equivocal rhetoric, & bland humanistic goodwill that gives no offense.-Oden
Once again we must learn to speak clearly of the long-range assurance of survival of the community of faith that lives by the Word of God and the power of the Spirit.
Oden, T. C. (2003). The Rebirth of Orthodoxy: Signs of New Life in Christianity (p. 43). New York: Harper