"We have all heard the gospel presented as God's triumphant answer to human problems - problems of our relation with ourselves and our fellow humans and our environment. Well, there is no doubt that the gospel does bring us solutions to these problems, but it does so by first solving a deeper problem - the deepest of all human problems, the problem of man's relation with his Maker. And unless we make it plain that the solution of these former problems depends on the settling of this latter one, we are misrepresenting the message and becoming false witnesses of God - for a half-truth presented as if it were the whole truth becomes something of a falsehood by that very fact."
--J.I. Packer, Knowing God
