Quotes about Relevance

Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God.

This means we do not ignore the particularity of biblical commands (and apply them to our own day as if they were timeless universals). Nor are we paralysed by their particularity (and thus unable to apply them to our day at all). We rejoice in their particularity because it shows us how the will of God was expressed in their context, and we take them as our paradigm for our own ethical construction.21

Vastly more important than all questions with regard to methods of preaching is the root question as to what it is that shall be preached.

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

People no longer rely on the Bible as either their standard for living or their source of truth. In fact, few people even bother to read it anymore.

If you've been fortunate enough to do a film that appeals to the entire family, that's the audience that's probably going to come back to you in something else.

The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything.