I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of Christ's obedience for belief and salvation.
John Gresham Machen expresses gratitude for Christ's active obedience, suggesting that it is fundamental to the Christian faith. He implies that without this obedience, there would be no hope for humanity, indicating that Christ's actions are central to the belief in salvation and redemption.
In practice
During a church sermon about faith and dedication.
Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But although faith is intellectual, it is not only intellectual. You cannot have faith without having knowledge; but you will not have faith if you have only knowledge.
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? 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?
The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith
Vastly more important than all questions with regard to methods of preaching is the root question as to what it is that shall be preached.
I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend
Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.
All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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