Unhurried meditation on gospel truths
It is the unhurried meditation on gospel truths and the exposing of our minds to these truths that yields the fruit of sanctified character.
The Thought of God
(Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1993), 11
Thus knowledge of Christ’s death for us as our sin-bearing substitute requires us to see ourselves as dead, risen, and alive forevermore in him. We who believe have died — painlessly and invisibly, we might say — in solidarity with him because he died, painfully and publicly, in substitution for us.
It is the unhurried meditation on gospel truths and the exposing of our minds to these truths that yields the fruit of sanctified character.
At the heart of revival is Christ made known to repenting sinners.
If the truth of being justified by Christ alone (not by our works) is lost, then all Christian truths are lost. For there is no middle ground between Christian righteousness and works-righteousness. There is no alternative to Christian righteousness but works-righteousness; if you do not build your confidence on the work of Christ, you must build your confidence on your own work. On this truth and only on this truth the church is built and has its being.