David Wells on the need for the church to return to Biblical Truth

'The moments of the Church's greatest influence-and, in fact, its greatest moments- as James Stewart, the Scottish preacher noted, have not been those when the Church reached for worldly power, or when it adapted to its culture, but when it sought to be authentic. The Church has been most influential in those moments when its contrition reached down deeply into its soul, when in its known weakness it cried out to God from the depths, when it sought to live by his truth and on his terms, when it sough to proclaim that truth in its world, when it was willing to pay the price of having that kind of truth, when it was willing to demand of itself that it live by that truth, when it sought above all else God in his grace and glory. At such moments it has soared and out of its own inherent weakness found extraordinary strength and power. When all of these things have been present, then the Church has been the Church. This is a time of extraordinary opportunity and this time brings with it an extraordinary challenge. Can the evangelical church once again find its authenticity? Can it find its voice?"