Grounded in the Gospel Quotes

“the Gospel is not the ABC’s of the Christian life; it is the A through Z of the Christian life.”
― J.I. Packer, Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way

“Wisdom and humility demand that we consider what our brothers and sisters through the ages have done by way of catechizing and discipling, and test the merit of these efforts by consideration of the biblical data. We are most unwise to try to continually reinvent the catechetical wheel or to assume that we are more likely than our forebears to be faithful to Scripture. Our”
― J.I. Packer, Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way

“We do well to ask about the catechetical value of our songs of worship. What vision of God do they convey? Do they serve well the proclamation of the biblical Gospel? Are the doctrines they exposit or imply sound doctrines that conform to the Gospel? Are our songs biblically based, and clearly so? Have we humbled ourselves to learn from the saints who have gone before us by singing the best of the songs from of old? Or do we limit ourselves to only the newest of the new songs? How can we do a better job of seizing upon the catechetical nature and formative power of our past and present hymnody?”
― J.I. Packer, Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way

“Catechesis is the church’s ministry of grounding and growing God’s people in the Gospel and its implications for doctrine, devotion, duty, and delight.”
― J.I. Packer, Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way