The gospel is not a way to get people into heaven; it is a way to get God into people. It is a transformation of human nature so that men become more like God... Salvation is not a line drawn between two places, but a line drawn between two states of being. It is the change from darkness to light, from death to life, from the rule of self to the rule of God.
(A.W. Tozer)

     We need to be reminded far more often than we need to be instructed. The human heart is a factory of forgetfulness; we forget God's grace, we forget His law, and we forget our own dependence upon Him. The regular preaching of the Word is not merely to teach us new things, but to anchor us in the things we already know lest we drift.
(C.S. Lewis)

     In many churches, Christianity has been reduced, not necessarily to something false or heretical, but to something much smaller than it is. To exalt Christ, edify believers, and evangelize the lost is understood in ways that confine Christianity. Worship only happens on Sunday mornings. Discipleship is the acquisition of biblical knowledge or the process of becoming more moral. Evangelism is about securing decisions for Christ. These are all good things but not the whole story. That’s why Christianity is often highly visible inside the church but largely absent from where people spend most of their lives. When faith is separated from work, worship is disconnected from vocation, discipleship unrelated to culture, and salvation irrelevant to the wider world, Christianity has been privatized.
(John Stonestreet and S. Michael Craven)