Quotes about Relevance

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

Many African Americans, Hispanics, and women read Scripture through Third World eyes, and this presents a deep challenge to First World readers, who all too often expect Scripture to endorse their comfortable, middle-class way of life.

Deep down, our single greatest fear is to live a life of insignificance, to come to the end of our life and feel like we never really did anything that mattered. That is our greatest fear.

Christians must pioneer new ways to bind ourselves to Scripture, to our traditions, and to each other—not for mere survival, but so that the church can be the authentic light of Christ to a world lost in darkness.

The relevance of the church is not found in its capitulation to culture but in its transformation of culture.

A word in season is most precious.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

Christianity is concerned with the unfolding of the Kingdom of God in this world, not the longevity of organizations.

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

It's just like the good news of the gospel of Jesus. Always fits. It don't need no changing. The good news is always good. It never wears out and by gum, it's always in style. Don't we need Him now more than ever.

The area of the Church stands in the world, as outwardly the Church stands in the village or in a city, beside the school, the cinema and the railway station. The Church's language cannot aim at being an end in itself. It must be made clear that the Church exists for the sake of the world, that the light is shining in the darkness.

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.