What we need to hear

Posted on May 18, 2010 
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Michael McKinley at the 9Marks blog has this quotation from J. Gresham Machen –

“What good does it do me to tell me that the type of religion presented in the Bible is a very fine type of religion and that the thing for me to do is just to start practicing that type of religion now? … I will tell you, my friend. It does not one tiniest little bit of good….

What I need first of all is not exhortation but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me. Have you any good news for me? That is the question that I ask of you. I know your exhortations will not help me. But if anything has been done to save me, will you not tell me the facts?”

— J. Gresham Machen, Christian Faith in the Modern World. (Image of J. Gresham Machen: The Theologian.)