Quotes about Relevance

The gospel is capable and designed to strike home in every culture, in every age, and in every language.

It is a fact that many statements about what the Bible says are derived from contextless exegeses of a former generation

In his book The Indelible Image, New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III reiterates a common piece of interpretive wisdom: "A text without a context is just a pretext for what we want it to mean.

One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their "gospel" doesn't even need it!

Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find the people who care. Those people are worth all of your time.

Brands need to reinvent themselves from time to time to stay relevant.

It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue (German) ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example. It is still clinging to one or two things which were useful once, but which are not useful now, neither are they ornamental.

I don't see any use in finding out things and clogging up my head with them when I mayn't ever have any occasion to use 'em.

I do not wish to hear about the moon from someone who has not been there.

If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.

You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.