The Gospel is harsh…

The Gospel is a harsh document; the Gospel is ruthless and specific in what it says; the Gospel is not meant to be re-worded, watered down and brought to the level of either our understanding or our taste. The Gospel is proclaiming something which is beyond us and which is there to stretch our mind, to widen our heart beyond the bearable at times, to recondition all our life, to give us a world view which is simply the world upside-down and this we are not keen to accept.
–Anthony Bloom (1914-2003)

Gospel teaching…

The whole teaching of the Gospel is really a teaching about loving. The fact that we fall short of it condemns us, but doesn’t make its declaration less true.
–Anthony Bloom (1914-2003)