Quote 589

Christianity exists only when the preaching of the cross is its message.

James White

http://www.sovereigngraceministries.org/blogs/cj-mahaney/post/Don-DA-Carson-Preserving-A-Passion-for-the-Gospel.aspx

If the gospel-even when you are orthodox-becomes something which you primarily assume, but what you are excited about is what you are doing in some sort of social reconstruction, you will be teaching the people that you influence that the gospel really isn't all that important. You won't be saying that-you won't even mean that-but that's what you will be teaching. And then you are only half a generation away from losing the gospel.

D.A. Carson

A liberal Protestant, a liberal Catholic, and a liberal Jew can agree on almost everything, because they believe almost nothing!

Proclaiming A Cross-Centered Theology (24)

Liberal Theology

The truth of the Gospel is the principle article of all Christian doctrine...Most necessary is it that we know this article well, teach it to others, and beat it into their heads continually

Death by Love (91)

Martin Luther

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

Sep 29, 1770 Newburyport, Massachusetts. From the sermon: "How willingly would I live forever to preach Christ, but I die to be with him."

George Whitefield

Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.

Unbelief

The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.

The Reason for God (181)

Tim Keller

It's Christ or nothing. And you better want it that way. Why? If it was 99.99% Christ and 0.01% you, you'd go to hell.

http://youtu.be/9W2fuFWUIL0 (around 54 minutes in)

The Gospel does not call us to receive Christ as an addition to our life, but as our life.

God is not a megalomaniac when he makes much of Himself, we would be megalomanicas if we made much of ourselves, because we would be unloving and that is what is infinitely loving for God to do because when he draws our attention to Himself it's like inviting us to a fountain. He is the ultimately satisfying reality in the Universe.

reFocus Conference 2010

John Piper

How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? ...How many times have I heard evangelists say, "It'll only take five minutes."? No my dear friend, it will take your life-all of it! "We're just trying to attract people and then we'll gradually bring them in further and further." That is what the cults do, that's not what Jesus did. Notice that in the gospels every time a great crowd is following Jesus, he turns around and says something so radical to them that most of them walk away. Of course Jesus probably would not get invited to teach evangelism

It makes me so angry, when men treat the glorious gospel of Christ as though it was a first step into Christianity, that takes ten minutes of counselling, and then you go onto greater stuff.

What you win people with is what you win people to.

Apologetics

But as I ran my hell-bound race Indifferent to the cost You looked upon my helpless state And led me to the cross. And I beheld God's love displayed You suffered in my place You bore the wrath reserved for me Now all I know is grace.

Song:All I Have Is Christ

Jordan Kauflin

Preach the gospel to yourself everyday.

The Gospel for Real Life

Jerry Bridges

God's children when they are spiritually healthy spend most of the time at the foot of the cross.

Sermon: Is Your View of the Cross Worldly

Conrad Mbewe

All the other revelations of God in Christ are like rays of sun breaking through the clouds. But the death of Christ for sinners was like a bolt of lightning. If we want to spend our minds to the fullest in knowing God to the fullest so that we can love him to the fullest, this is where we will focus.

DG Conference 2010

John Piper

The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

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Church

Put the gospel first. And that means you must put the priorities of the gospel at the center of your prayer life.

Basics for Believers

D.A. Carson

Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God's already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn't pay Him for what He's done for me.

A.W. Tozer

O sweet exchange! O unsearchable operation! O benefits surpassing all expectation! that the wickedness of many should be hid in a single righteous One, and that the righteousness of One should justify many transgressors!

Epistle of Diognetus

Salvation

He Himself took on Him the burden of our iniquities, He gave His own Son as a ransom for us, the holy One for transgressors, the blameless One for the wicked, the righteous One for the unrighteous, the incorruptible One for the corruptible, the immortal One for those who are mortal. For what other thing was capable of covering our sins than His righteousness? By what other one was it possible that we, the wicked and ungodly, could be justified, than by the only Son of God? O sweet exchange! O unsearchable operation! O benefits surpassing all expectation! That the wickedness of many should be hid in a single righteous One, and that the righteousness of One should justify many transgressors!

Epistle to Diognetus, http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0101.htm

2nd Century Atonement Justification

I think the attempt to make the gospel "relevant" is irrelevant to someone who knows Christ. It's boring, because it's about an imaginary Christ designed for those who define themselves in consumerist terms.

Good News for Anxious Christians (165)

Phillip Cary

No softening like gospel-softening; no hardening like gospel-hardening.

George Swinnock