Idols are a danger not only because they are unworthy of worship but because we become like what we worship (e.g., Pss 115:8, 135:18). Consequently, while God calls us to be conformed to the image of the good and loving God, worshipping an idol starts us down the path of becoming deformed in the image of a false deity.

Kelly M. Kapic, Christian Life, 46.

So, by means of the obedience by which He obeyed unto death, hanging upon the tree, He undid the old disobedience occasioned by the tree.

St. Irenaeus of Lyons, On the Apostolic Preaching, 62.

And, having divided the Red Sea, He led the sons of Israel, in all safety, into the desert, while the persecuting Egyptians, who followed after them into the sea … <He destroyed> them all. This was the judgment of God on those who unjustly maltreated the seed of Abraham.

St. Irenaeus of Lyons, On the Apostolic Preaching, 57.

For what use is it to know the truth in words, only to defile the body and perform evil deeds? Or what profit indeed can come from holiness of body, if truth is not in the soul? For these rejoice together and join forces to lead man to the presence of God.

St. Irenaeus of Lyons, On the Apostolic Preaching, 40.

Catholicity means that our particularity must not undermine the most cherished and central unity of the church: We worship the triune God who reconciled sinful humanity to himself through the incarnate Son and in the power of his given Spirit. And by this affirmation of particularity within a larger catholicity, our theology of Christian life will seek to honor both the historical and the contemporary. We look to the past and the present, honoring the universal while creating space for the particular.

Kelly M. Kapic, Christian Life, 40-41.

Many were the wondering questions from time to time addressed to me. The idea of a resurrection from the dead was that which most keenly interested these Natives, and called forth their powers of inquiry and argument. Thus the waves of hope and fear swept alternately across our lives; but we embraced every possible opportunity of telling them the story of the life and death of Jesus, in the strong hope that God would spare us yet to bring the benighted Heathen to the knowledge of the true salvation, and to love and serve the only Saviour.

John G. Paton, The Autobiography of the Pioneer Missionary to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), 98.

Amongst the Heathen, in the New Hebrides, and especially on Tanna, woman is the down-trodden slave of man. She is kept working hard, and bears all the heavier burdens, while he walks by her side with musket, club, or spear. If she offends him, he beats or abuses her at pleasure . . . Oh, how sad and degraded is the position of Woman, where the teaching of Christ is unknown, or disregarded though known! It is the Christ of the Bible, it is His Spirit entering into Humanity, that has lifted Woman, and made her the helpmate and the friend of Man, not his toy or his slave.

John G. Paton, The Autobiography of the Pioneer Missionary to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), 90.

Christian life is, therefore, not just my life, but life in communion with God and all his people.

Kelly M. Kapic, Christian Life, 30.

As Mediator between God and humanity, the incarnate Son is God’s grace given to us. He is not only God, worthy of worship, but also our Priest, King, and Prophet who leads our worship. In theology as in worship, we must always see that Christ is central to Christian life. We enjoy life, love, and fellowship now with God by the Holy Spirit, the eternal divine person who is the bond of love between the Father and the Son, so even now the same Spirt is the bond of love connecting us and God in Christ.

Kelly M. Kapic, Christian Life, 28.