Epigraphs
‘To those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ. . . . I felt I had to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints’
Jude, servant—and earthly brother—of Jesus Christ (v. 3)
‘That one sentence did so exhilarate my heart, which had been so wounded with guilt for my sins, that immediately I felt a marvellous comfort and assurance. That Scripture is more pleasant to me than a honeycomb.’
Thomas Bilney, early Cambridge Reformer, on justification by grace through faith
‘The Reformers loved not their lives even unto death, so that we could receive the precious and eternal gospel intact. In this age of amnesia, relativism and superficiality, we must hold fast to this same gospel, and pass it on. For we too walk in that triumphant procession of God’s prophets and apostles, spurred on by a great cloud of witnesses.
‘Cambodian Christians went through their own Neronian persecution, under Pol Pot. They always knew themselves to be a counter-culture, and that to follow Christ would mean being crucified by a sinful world and cruciformed by a holy God.’
Don Cormack, author of Killing Fields, Living Fields: An Unfinished Portrait of the Cambodian Church