Some Favorite Quotes

“H.H. Savage of First Baptist Church in Pontiac once remarked that it took about four times the prayer and energy to get a soul saved during the 1960s as it took during the 1930s” (One in Hope and Doctrine, p. 185).

“All our lives we have challenged Christian people in any endeavor to distinguish between essentials and non-essentials in the Word of God. For anyone to say that the Word of God contains matter that is not essential, is to disparage the inspiration and revelation and the Author of the Bible itself” (Oliver Van Osdel, “A Very Great Sorrow,” Baptist Temple News, Wealthy Street Baptist Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 18, 1930).

(Friday Church News Notes, February 13, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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