discipleship

For all this we would not underestimate the importance of mere knowing about. Its value lies in its ability to rouse us to desire to know in actual experience.

This is as it should be. Personal experience must always be first in real life. The most important thing is that we experience reality by the shortest and most direct method.

If I read aright the record of Christian experience through the years, those who most enjoyed the power of the Spirit have had the least to say about Him by way of attempted definition.

The idea of the Spirit held by the average church member is so vague as to be nearly nonexistent.

Our neglect of the doctrine of the blessed Third Person has had and is having serious consequences. For doctrine is dynamite.

This is not a trifling distinction. A doctrine has practical value only as far as it is prominent in our thoughts and makes a difference in our lives.

In neglecting or denying the deity of Christ, the liberals have committed a tragic blunder, for it leaves them nothing but an imperfect Christ whose death was a mere martyrdom and whose resurrection i

Real faith must always mean more than passive acceptance. It dare mean nothing less than surrender of our doomed Adam-life to a merciful end upon the cross.

The truth is that God has never planned that His children should live forever stretched upon a cross. Christ Himself endured His cross for only six hours.

It may be that there are some well-disposed followers who draw back because they cannot accept the morbidity that the idea of the cross seems to connote.