"Authentic, evangelical faith cannot be separated from a readiness to act on the Word of God according to present opportunities. Whenever faith is accepted merely as a closed system of well-defined doctrines, we lose contact with the living God. The faith that saves is a surrender to God."
"Sincerity means trying to make the outward man more and more like the inner man by simply being true to ourselves, so that no human respect can make us false."
"In my own mind, the greatest need in the church today is to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior ... But this knowledge is more than a casual acknowledgement that Jesus lived and died and rose again. It is the kind of knowledge that leaves us changed. It is an encounter with someone who alters the very course of our lives ... Many have a vague idea of Jesus as a 'good guy' who helped the poor and told people to love one another. They operate with a fuzzy, almost symbolic notion of Jesus as the symbol for a liberal's idea of goodness."
from The Importance of Being Foolish.
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