To take a glimpse within the veil,
To know that God is mine,
Are springs of joy that never fail,
Unspeakable! divine!
John Newton@john__newton
"…it is possible to have the best intentions and ignore the cultural possessions of a people, and to preach the gospel pure and simple, without any application to their specific characteristics. History has shown that such a procedure is questionable...such a method does not take seriously enough the people to whom one speaks. God, in contrast, takes us, and those to whom we speak, very seriously, and as his ministers we ought to do the same. Abstract, disembodied and history-less sinners do not exist; only very concrete sinners exist, whose sinful life is determined and characterised by all sorts of cultural and historical factors… I must bring the gospel of God’s grace in Jesus Christ to the whole man, in his concrete existence, in his everyday environment. It is obviously then a great error on my part if I do not take a person’s culture and history seriously."
J. H. Bavinck, An Introduction to the Science of Missions (Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1960), p. 81.
The wonderland of God’s creation includes a masterpiece whose beauty more closely resembles the actual nature of God than anything else in the whole universe.
What is it?
You.
—Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open
You may know God, but not comprehend him.
--Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
(In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection
of Christian Quotations_ [2001], "Knowing God")
If each spouse says to the other, "I will treat my selfishness as the main problem in the marriage," you have the prospect for great things.- Timothy Keller@timkellernyc
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