Richard Baxter on the Responsibility of Christian Conversation

Be sure to do most where you have most authority and obligation. He that will neglect and slight his family, relations, children, and servants, who are under him, and always with him, and yet be zealous for the conversion of strangers, doth reveal much hypocrisy, and showeth, that it is something else than the love of souls, or sense of duty, which carrieth him on.

View the rest of "Motives to Christian Conference and Exhortation".

A Wreckage...

The Christian landscape is strewn with the wreckage of derelict, 

half-built towers: 

the ruins of those who began to build and were unable to finish.

 For thousands of people still ignore Christ's warning and 

undertake to follow him without first pausing to reflect on the cost of doing so.

 The result is the great scandal of Christendom today: 

so-called 'nominal Christianity'.

--From "Basic Christianity" (rev. edn. London: IVP, 1971), p. 108. Thanks Pastor Stott