"Christians in the first centuries of the church were granted the privilege of bearing the name of Christ to enemies of the gospel. These citizens of heaven, yet residents of the republic, remained unashamed about the testimony of their Lord because they knew Whom they believed and were persuaded that He was able to deliver them from evil.Fast-forward twenty centuries. Now resident throughout the world, Christians in many places are agai ..."
"Can we trust them? Some belonging to the church contest the inerrancy of God's
Word. When they do, however, they depart from Jesus. They aren't just giving
away a doctrine devised by nineteenth-century Presbyterians, says DeYoung,
they are giving away Jesus. A Christian, when he evangelizes, can put all the
trust in Scripture that Jesus himself put into it—total trust. J. Ligon Duncan, as in
2012, draws percipiently from the Old Te ..."