David Wile

“A minister who is much before the public has need to be thick skinned, and to exercise to a very high degree the virtue of longsuffering.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Eccentric Preachers

“We want to listen patiently to new views so that we are not close-minded traditionalists. Yet it is right to be chary of a view that resonates with our culture and goes contrary to what most Christians have believed throughout history. History isn’t the final authority. Traditions can be wrong. Everything must be judged by Scripture, yet the burden of proof is surely on those who argue contrary to the view that Christians have espoused throughout history.”
― Benjamin Reaoch, Women, Slaves, and the Gender Debate: A Complementarian Response to the Redemptive-Movement Hermeneutic

“In Paul’s mind, same-sex sexual intimacy is an especially clear illustration of the idolatrous human impulse to turn away from God’s order and design. Those who suppress the truth about God as revealed in nature suppress the truth about themselves written in nature. Homosexual practice is an example on a horizontal plane of our vertical rebellion against God.”
― Kevin DeYoung, What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality?

“To be perfectly blunt, sin is being redefined within the evangelical tradition. What was sinful a generation ago is no longer sinful today. When confronted with this reality, evangelicals will more or less trivialize their heritage by saying, “Those behaviors were not really sinful, but a mere religious and social quirkiness of our forebears.”…Contemporary society is more permissive than that of the past, and the evangelical community is being affected by that permissiveness…. [T]here is less and less continuity with the past.58”
― D.A. Carson, The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism