An Essential Thing

“You can have true Christian churches that don’t baptize the right way. You can have real Christian churches that sing the wrong kind of songs. You can have genuine Christian churches that have adopted unedifying forms of church government. But you can’t have Christian churches that have the wrong God. And biblical marriage is one of the creational established and central confessions of faith concerning the nature of the true God.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 6

No Salt or Sap

“There is nothing more suffocating than being trapped in a Christless Christianity. A Christless Christianity is all ‘Thou shalt not. Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch.’ These things are of no value, Paul says in Colossians, in checking fleshly indulgence (Col. 2:22-23). A Christless Christianity is not really Christianity at all: it has no blood in it, no salt in it, not sap in it. It’s not alive.”

Keep Your Kids, p. 119