Quotes about Relevance

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.

To Erasmus] I give you hearty praise and commendation on this further account-that you alone, in contrast with all others, have attacked the real thing, that is, the essential issue. You have not wearied me with those extraneous issues about the Papacy, purgatory, indulgences and such like -trifles, rather than issues... you, and you alone have seen the hinge on which all turns, and aimed for the vital spot.

The Acts has so much to say to our half-hearted and cold-blooded Christianity in the western world. It rebukes our preoccupation with buildings and ministerial pedigree, our syncretism and pluralism, our lack of expectancy and vibrant faith. As such it is a book supremely relevant for our time.

Caesar's messengers didn't go round the world saying, 'Caesar is lord, so if you feel you need to have a Roman-empire kind of experience, you might want to submit to him'.

In what sense is the Bible authoritative in the first place? How can the Bible be appropriately understood and interpreted? How can its authority, assuming such appropriate interpretation, be brought to bear on the church itself, let alone on the world?

But if Christians don't get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?

hope it is clear, in fact, that this task of telling people about Jesus remains vital.

Put tradition first, and scripture will be muzzled and faded. Put scripture first, and tradition will come to new life. Better

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

nowhere is the modern church more worldly than in its breathless idolizing of such modern notions as change, relevance, innovation and being on the right side of history.

Creative persuasion is a matter of being biblical, not of being either modern or postmodern.

As Simone Weil and others have established beyond question, only someone in touch with the eternal can hope to be eternally relevant—and faithful too.