Quotes about Relevance

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

It is vitally important that we pay attention to the narrative framework in which the Old Testament laws are set.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

The beautiful is just as useful as the useful.

humor can only exist when people are still capable of recognizing some border between the important and the unimportant. and nowadays this border has become unrecognizable.

Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.

Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.

Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.

Being "married for a mission" can revitalize a lot of marriages in which the partners think they suffer from a lack of compatibility; my suspicion is that many of these couples actually suffer from a lack of purpose.

Prayer helps us to regain the proper priorities, discern biblical wisdom, and make right judgments. Without prayer, Glaspey might say, we live as temporal people with temporal values. Prayer pushes eternity back into our lives, making God ever more relevant to the way we live our lives. Prayer pushes eternity back into our lives, making God ever more relevant to the way we live our lives.

'Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.