‘Are you a Bible-living church?’
- The Church lives for worship.
- The church is continually devoted to the ordinary means of grace. Westminster Shorter Catechism question 88: Q. What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption? A. The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption are, his ordinances, especially the Word, sacraments, and prayer; all which are made effectual to the elect for salvation.
- C.S. Lewis in The Screwtape Letters, has Screwtape say to Wormwood ‘It is funny how mortals always picture us [demons] as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out’.
- The Church lives for fellowship.
- The Essenes were required to give up their possessions to enter the community; the Church did it voluntarily.
- ‘When the early church said that God cared, the care they gave their own demonstrated this.’ – Darrell Bock
- The Church lives to testify.
- ‘Just as there is no remission of sins, so there is no hope of salvation outside the church.’ – John Calvin
- ‘You win them to what you win them with’. – A.W. Tozer