Quotes

The gospel is not just the A-B-C’s
but the A to Z of Christianity.
The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine
necessary to enter the kingdom,
but the way we make
all progress in the kingdom
TIMOTHY KELLER

The center of Christianity
and the center of pastoral life is
the dishonorable, foolish, gruesome,
and utterly glorious reality of
the tortured God-man, Jesus Christ
JOHN PIPER

We need to bear in mind that
the gospel gives
the ultimate solution
to human predicament,
not penultimate solutions
DONALD G. BLOESCH

One thing Paul values even more than
unity, concord, peace, and love
is the gospel . . .
For the sake of the cruciform gospel
he is willing to provoke division,
call names, condemn, accuse, and judge.
Paul reminds me as a preacher that
I must be tethered to something more significant
than peace and harmony if I am to be
faithful to my vocation
WILLIAM H. WILLIMON

The context and content of preaching
are always under the judgmental scrutiny
of the ‘wise’ and learned in every age and generation.
The kerygma has never been humanly assessed as reasonable,
and what the Christian faith
holds up as being of eternal importance
has never met the human test of philosophical logic,
the intellectual standards of the academy,
or reasonings about common pragmatic purpose.
Preaching is perennially under question by those
whose lives and concerns are steadily influenced
by what is measurable
JAMES EARL MASSEY

One word of truth
outweighs the whole world
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

The gospel is not only
the most important message in all of history;
it is the only essential message in all of history.
Yet we allow thousands of professing Christians to live their entire lives without
clearly understanding it
and experiencing the joy of living by it
JERRY BRIDGES

All around us we see
Christians and churches relaxing their grasp
on the gospel,
fumbling it,
and in danger of letting it drop
from their hands altogether
JOHN R. W. STOTT

I fear that the cross,
without ever being disowned,
is constantly in danger of being dismissed
from the central place it must enjoy,
by relatively peripheral insights that take on
far too much weight.
Whenever the periphery is
in danger of displacing the center,
we are not far removed from idolatry
D. A. CARSON

What do I need to remove from my life,
in order to throw myself
without reserve or impediment
into the great cause of the gospel?
This is my brief moment in history.
I do not have forever.
Now is the time to speak to my generation . . .
Compel me with my personal responsibility
to serve the interests of the gospel in the world today
RAYMOND C. ORTLAND, Jr