The church as a whole has strayed quite far from biblical evangelism; that is, sharing the Gospel in the way that Jesus did, the way the Apostle Paul did, and the rest of the disciples and prophets in Scripture.

No story is more beautiful than the Gospel, even though it is a story full of pain and nails and hate and blood and sin and murder and betrayal and forsakenness and unimaginable agony and death. It is the story of what happens to the most beautiful thing, Perfect Love, when it enters our world: it comes to a Cross, to the crossroad between good and evil. All our most beautiful stories are like the Gospel: they are tragedies first, and then comedies; they are crosses and then crowns. They are crosses because they are conflicts between good and evil. That is the fundamental plot of every great story. To say "that story is beautiful" means "that story resembles the Gospel." If you are bored by the Gospel, that puts no black eye on the Gospel, but on you. Most likely, it means you have never listened to it. You must have heard it, but hearing is far from the same thing as listening...

Grace makes us inwardly RIGHT so we walk outwardly UPRIGHT

I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

Яким же чином ця Божа Премудрість народилась від Отця без матері й від Діви без отця, як то Вона воскресла й знов до свого Отця вознеслася, - про те краще не питай, бо й у цій, як і в інших науках, є порожні тонкощі, в яких тільки й може мати місце та несправжня віра, що її називають умоглядною. Роби й тут так, як в оперному театрі, тобто вдовольняйся тим, що в тебе перед очима, а за завіси й лаштунки не заглядай. Ця заслона зроблена нарочито для легкодухих і надто вже цікавих сердець, бо ницість чим більше знайомиться з великими справами та людьми, тим менше їх шанує.

Grace has a face. It is Jesus Christ.