Passionate about the Gospel

"If there's anything in life we should be passionate about, it's the gospel. And I don't mean passionate only about sharing it with others; I mean passionate in thinking about the gospel, reflecting upon it, rejoicing in it, allowing it to color the way we look at the world and all of life."

C. J. Mahaney
from Living the Cross Centred Life

Man's Rebellion Against God

"The basic position of man in rebellion against God is that man is at the centre of the universe, that he is autonomous - here lies his rebellion. Man will keep his rationalism and his rebellion, his insistence on total autonomy or partially autonomous areas, even if it means he must give up his rationality."

Francis Schaeffer
from Escape from Reason

A Weakness

“Today we have a weakness in our educational process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation. We have studied our exegesis as exegesis, our theology as theology, our philosophy as philosophy; we study something about art as art; we study music as music; without understanding that these things are of man, and the things of man are never unrelated parallel lines.”

Francis Schaeffer
from Escape from Reason