Quotes about Relevance

How is it that Christians today will pay $20 to hear the latest Christian artist in concert, but Jesus can't draw a crowd?

But all I know — the tremendous importance of myself to me, and the necessity of acknowledging that importance to myself — these things the wise and lovely Gloria was born knowing, these things and the painful futility of trying to know anything else.

The drift away from the Bible has weakened the church.

It can be argued that Advent, more than any other season of the church year, is immediately relevant to our concrete lives as individuals, to the concrete life of the church under stress, and to the concrete headlines in the newspaper.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

for our times are not satisfied with faith and not even with the miracle of changing water into wine - they 'go right on,' changing wine into water.

Only the Eternal is always appropriate and always present, is always true. Only the Eternal applies to each human being

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

The Bible has the answers to our everyday life. Many times people don't realize how practical it is.

In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.

Culturally appropriate evangelism answers the actual questions being asked by a given culture rather than those questions the church believes the culture should ask.