Quotes about Relevance

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.

A church that does not keep step with modern scientific knowledge is doomed.

Without truth, spirituality is nothing more than a hopeless confession that sheer matter alone does not answer life's deepest hungers. Truth is the thread that separates true spirituality from false spirituality. Spirituality does not give relevance to life; rather, truth gives relevance to spirituality.

Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.

That was the night I learned the value of an old hymn. How something so old and "out-of-date" could say words my heart needed to hear and didn't know how to say.

We want to be relevant . . . However, the more relevant we become to a sin-dominated world, the more irrelevant we actually are to God.

Twenty-first-century people hear and learn differently than most churches communicate.

God's Word is perfect, ever relevant, speaking to all issues, for all of life.

Too often Christians today have only two gears on their theological bike: essential and unimportant.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.