J. I. Packer Order Quotations

The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is,

There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.

We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.

Always and everywhere the servants of Christ are under orders to evangelize

Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech about the natural order and human experience as were current in their days, and in a language that was common to themselves and their contemporaries. This is saying no more than that they wrote to be understood. Their picture of the world and things in it is not put forward as normative for later science, andy more than their use of Hebrew and Greek is put forward as a perfect model for composition in these languages.