James Rickenbaker

“Not that we may alter or revise the gospel in order to make it more palatable to the modern mind. That would be treachery to Christ. Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms. Our business is to interpret and criticize modern thought by the gospel, not vice versa. Confusion here is fatal. The formula ‘of course, nowadays we don’t believe …’ should find no place in modern re-statements of the gospel; its appearance (a common thing, unfortunately) is usually a sign that what is being stated is, to that extent, not the gospel, but a denial of the gospel; and such statements come under Paul’s curse, to which we referred before.”
― J.I. Packer, "Fundamentalism" and the Word of God

“By its very nature, mainline Protestantism undermines the evangelistic thrust of the church since the goal is not to win people for Christ but instead to use the church at the national level to pressure governmental agencies to conform to its version of peace and justice.”
― Albert Collver III, The Necessary Distinction: A Continuing Conversation on Law and Gospel

“The pastor must ever be on guard against moralism, legalism, and pietism that would attempt to renovate or fix his hearers by use of the Law. The Law always accuses (lex semper accusat), and it accuses in all of its functions and uses. The purpose of the Law is not to provide a template for moral improvement, but to silence every self-justifying argument before God and amplify sin.”
― Albert Collver III, The Necessary Distinction: A Continuing Conversation on Law and Gospel

“He will not be so self-willed as, on the one hand, to build a speculative theological system which will say more about God than God has said about Himself, or, on the other, to ignore or tone down what Scripture does say because he finds it hard to fit in with the rest of what he knows.”
― J.I. Packer, "Fundamentalism" and the Word of God