Imagine a world where you know the names of your neighbors, and you play cards with them and eat meals together, praying for the children in the neighborhood and lending a helping hand before you are asked.

Rosaria Butterfield

Imagine a world where people take back the night in prayer.

Rosaria Butterfield

Imagine a world where the fruit of repentance and the practice of hospitality mark the reputations of Christians for those who do not yet believe that Jesus saves by the very same power that raised him from the grave.

Rosaria Butterfield

Imagine a world where biblical patriarchy - the benevolent leading of servant-hearted fathers - made all of us breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that the good fathers would protect us from the roving gangs of evil men.

Rosaria Butterfield

Imagine a world where sexuality was safe within the confines of biblical boundaries an d was not unleashed in rape, incest, pornography, and self-harm.

Rosaria Butterfield

Imagine a world where every Christian knew by name people who lived in poverty or prison, felt tied to them and to their futures, and lived differently because of it.

Rosaio Butterfield

Imagine a world where every Christian knew his neighbors sufficiently to be of earthly and spiritual good.

Rosario Butterfield

Imagine a world where men lived as men of God and women lived as women of God, and children - including those not yet born - were valued as children of God. One where gender and sexuality roles were known to be blessings to others, even when they require great sacrifice. One where being born male or female comes with distinct blessings and constraints, and whee our roles as men and women were valued as high and distinctive callings.

Rosaria Butterfield

Imagine if the children of the neighborhood knew that the Christians were safe people to ask for help when unthinkable agony canvassed their private or family lives.

Rosaria Butterfield

Imagine a world where neighbors said that Christians throw the best parties in town and are the go-to people for big problems and issues, without being invited.

Rosaria Butterfield

Imagine a world where living as image bearers of a holy God meant something, something that changed the way we saw ourselves and others.

Rosaria Butterfield

Imagine a world where every Christian tithed, and where we lived intentionally below our means, having enough to share and moving into neighborhoods that need us more often than we need them.

Rosaria Butterfield

Imagine a world where every Christian made a covenant of church membership and honored it.

Rosaria Butterfield

Imagine a world where every Christian practiced radically ordinary hospitality as either host or guest.

Rosaria Butterfield

The great majority of friendships are based on common sin.

John S. Waldrip

It is a Christian's duty to triumph, not only over the world, but over Satan.

William Bridge (1600-1670)

Christianity does not profess to convince the perverse and headstrong, to bring irresistible evidence to the daring and profane, to vanquish the proud scorner, and afford evidences from which the careless and perverse cannot possibly escape. This might go to destroy man's responsibility. All Christianity professes, is to propose such evidences as may satisfy the meek, the tractable, the candid, the serious inquirer.

Simon Greenleaf, Harvard law school founder and professor

Christian theism is the only coherent worldview; all others are incoherent and contradictory.

Paul S. Nelson

They that will not be taught by the Word shall be judged by the Word.

Thomas Watson (ca. 1620-1686)

The reports of modern day missionary work often tell of many converts and sometimes of large numbers of "decisions" or professions. Apparently there is much success, but many times these converts are not gathered into a congregation for worship, mutual encouragement fellowship, teaching, and service. What is needed is a test of the professions. The local church is admirably suited for this task.

Cliff Hellar

The Christian life is not a call to be true to yourself. It's a call to deny yourself, or at least to deny those parts of yourself that are incompatible with the human type we should all aspire to imitate: Jesus Christ.

Brett McCracken

What is prayer, and the nature of it? Prayer is the pouring out of the soul to God; not the pouring out of words, nor the pouring out of expressions; but the pouring out of the soul to God.

William Bridge (1600-1670)

Which is the most reasonable, to believe in a Creator who takes a continued interest in His creatures, and can at pleasure exert His power in their behalf; or to believe that nature has no intelligent personal Producer, or if it has such an One, that He keeps aloof from His own workmanship?

George N. H. Peters (1825-1909)

Apologists have well stated that Christianity differs from all other religions in that it is based on the personal life of its Founder, and not, as others, on mere dogmatic teaching.

George N. H. Peters (1825-1909)

The vast majority of professing Christians today do not pray for true revival, do not expect true revival, neither understand nor believe in true revival and do not want true revival.

Dr. William R. Downing, pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church, Morgan Hill, CA.