What the World Needs Now...

"I do not think that what the Bible says about the love of God can long survive at the forefront of our thinking if it is abstracted from the sovereignty of God, the holiness of God, the wrath of God, the providence of God, or the personhood of God- to mention only a few nonnegotiable elements of basic Christianity. The result, of course, is that the love of God in our culture has been purged of anything the culture finds uncomfortable...My generation was taught to sing, 'What the world needs now is love, sweet love,' in which we robustly instruct the Almighty that we do not need another mountain (we have enough of them), but we could do with some more love. The [flippant pride] is staggering." -D.A. Carson (The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God, 11)