“I think the greatest weakness in the church
today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible.
Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique,
in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He
alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on
the Scriptures.” - R.C. Sproul
taken from: The Prayer of Our
Lord
“Pastors are supposed to be under-shepherds of Christ. Too many modern preachers are so bent on understanding the culture that they develop the mind of the culture and not the mind of Christ. They start to think like the world, and not like the Savior. Frankly, the nuances of worldly culture are virtually irrelevant to me. I want to know the mind of Christ and bring that to bear on the culture, no matter what culture I may be ministering to. If I’m going to stand up in a pulpit and be a representative of Jesus Christ, I want to know how He thinks—and that must be my message to His people too. The only way to know and proclaim the mind of Christ is by being faithful to study and preach His Word. What happens to preachers who obsess about cultural “relevancy” is that they become worldly, not godly.” - John MacArthur
"In a fatal pursuit of relevance, the church has often become merely an echo of the secular culture in which it lives, having a desperate desire to be ‘with it’ and acceptable to the contemporary world….We need churches filled with Christians who are not enslaved by the culture, churches that seek more than anything to please God and His only begotten Son, rather than to attract the applause of dying men and women.” - R.C. Sproul
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