“Think of a cultured despiser of the Gospel… They hear the Gospel and like the Greeks, they say, ‘foolishness.’ Now, in our day, in America , our conservative lifestyle and our biblical orientation is in danger of being so politicized that our fundamental response to people like that is disdain, not debt. Test yourself right now. You watch the television, you look at political speeches, you walk the university campus and see how some may be dressed or whatever, and rising up out of your heart is not the feeling, ‘I owe them grace,’ but, ‘yuck…’ That’s not Romans. That’s not the Bible. If you come to the world with one colossal, well-argued ‘yuck’ upon your house, you won’t win anybody to Jesus.”
– John Piper, in the sermon “Not Ashamed of the Gospel” (06/14/98)