“The gospel call to repent and believe has been replaced with a call to accept Christ and repeat the sinner’s prayer, which is often at the end of tracts and the conclusion of emotional and often manipulative public invitations.”

“We will not because we cannot, and we cannot because we are new creatures who are no longer able to live without the light of God’s presence or to endure the darkness and filth of this age.”

“It seems that the evangelical community no longer views conversion primarily as a supernatural work of God wrought through the miracle of the new birth.”

“We no longer think the need to examine and test ourselves to see if we are in the faith is necessary.23 Thus, the carnal sing the songs of Zion, thinking they have heaven as a future home, even though this world has their present heart.”

“Therefore, Christians are viewed as those who have merely changed their minds rather than those who have been transformed by the power of God into new creatures with new natures resulting in new and righteous affections.”

“We have learned of three vital characteristics of God’s new covenant people: first, those who are truly Christians will possess one heart and unite in their affections for God and for one another. Second, they will possess one way or a singularity of purpose and conduct: they will be followers of Jesus Christ. Third, they will be marked by a genuine fear of the Lord, which will result in their own blessing and the blessing of those after them.”

“If even the most emphatic and frequent confession of the lordship of Jesus Christ is not evidence of true conversion, then what is?”

“Very few have heard that without holiness or sanctification no one will see the Lord.”

“these teachings of Christ and the apostles are not denials of the essential Christian doctrine of justification by faith alone. They are simply affirming the universal truth that the inward reality of a thing is revealed by its accompanying character and deeds.”

“If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.”

“How is it, then, that so many in the evangelical church are unaware of their sin and unmarked by confession? It is because they are largely unconverted.”

“The Scriptures and the great confessions of the church rank saving faith among the “deep things” of God, a doctrine of unfathomable profundity that should be examined and contemplated with the greatest concern and care.”

“An erroneous three-tiered ranking of individuals within the evangelical community has existed for far too long:”

“Such a ranking has allowed the church to be filled with men, women, and youth who have a form of godliness, but deny its power; who profess God, but deny Him with their deeds; and who emphatically confess Christ’s lordship, but do not do the will of the Father.”

“Those who choose the broad way boast that they have freed themselves from the Tyrant of heaven, but in doing so they have subjected themselves to the tyranny of their own depraved hearts.”

“By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. —1 John 2:5–6”

“To put it plainly, the one who demonstrates a real and enduring love for his brother in Christ and for the church collectively gives powerful evidence of conversion. However, the one who claims Christ and yet does not love his brother has little grounds for such a boast.”

“Effectual ministry is hard, and it will cost you everything! And by the time you are an old man, you will be broken—but strong in the things of God!”

“Eternal life is not an undetectable positional standing before God or a theological conjecture. It is a present, experimental, and discernible reality in the earthly pilgrimage of the believer.”

“It is as real to him as the recovery of sight to the blind, the gift of hearing to the deaf, and the restoration of life to the dead.”