“I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more,
if they had known they were slaves.”
~ Harriet Tubman
By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by
our breathless chase after relevance without a matching commitment to
faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful but irrelevant; by our
determined efforts to redefine ourselves in ways that are more compelling to the
modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but
our authority and our relevance. Our crying need is to be faithful as well as relevant.~ Os Guinness
For nineteen and a half centuries, the Christian churches have labored, not without success, to remove this unfortunate impression made by their Lord and Master. They have hustled the Magdalens from the communion table, founded total abstinence societies in the name of him who made the water wine, and added improvements of their own, such as various bans and anathemas upon dancing and theatergoing....Feeling that the original commandment ‘thou shalt not work’ was rather half hearted, [they] have added to it a new commandment, ‘thou shalt not play.~Dorothy L. Sayers