Quotes about Relevance

The Christian faith has become a cheap faith because we too often live as if it has no value. We complain when the preacher runs over a few minutes on the Sunday sermon and consider it a great inconvenience to return to services once or twice more in the same week. No wonder so much of the world does not consider our faith relevant when we are not even willing to give of our time, much less our freedom or lives, for what we say we believe in.

Many churches have molded their programs around the community—not the Word of God.

The Old Testament may not seem relevant to us today—but it is, because it is part of God's Holy Word, and He has much to teach us through its pages.

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

There is a strong movement, especially in Protestantism, to recast the Christian message in order to make it acceptable to modern man.

Spiritually, we have wandered far from the faith of our fathers . . . no nation which relegates the Bible to the background, which disregards the love of God and flouts the claims of the Man of Galilee, can long survive.

The Bible is the only Book in the world that predicts the future. The Bible is more modern than tomorrow morning's newspaper.

Christianity has become so respectable and so conventional that it is now insipid. The salt has lost its flavor.

God has given us a message that is not only for past times and this time, but for all time.

Though cultures differ and times change, the Word of our God stands forever as an unchanging source of answers to all of life's problems.

Truth is timeless. Truth does not differ from one age to another, from one people to another, from one geographical location to another... the great all-prevailing Truth stands for time and eternity.

The vitality [of] the Bible [is] exhibited in every generation... Its power to transform lives is its best apologetic.