This Is Not An Age In Which

...when I Accept Christ As My Savior... I Am Immediately In A New And Living Relationship With Each Of The Three Persons Of The Trinity.

It Is Only As We Consciously Bring Each Victory To His Feet, And Keep It There As We Think Of It - And Especially As We Speak Of It - That We Can Avoid The Pride Of That Victory, Which Can Be Worse Than The Sin Over Which We Claim To Have Had The Victory.

Things, Things, Things. Always More Things, And Success Is Seen As The Abundance Of Things.

Modern Man Has No Real "value" For The Ocean. All He Has Is The Most Crass Form Of Egoist, Pragmatic Value For It. He Treats It As A "thing" In The Worst Possible Sense, To Exploit It For The "good" Of Man. The Man Who Believes Things Are There Only By Chance Cannot Give Things A Real Value. But For The Christian The Value Of A Thing Is Not In Itself Autonomously, But Because God Made It.

I Am Afraid That As Evangelicals, We Think That A Work Of Art Only Has Value If We Reduce It To A Tract.