“If God had perceived our
greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had
perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a
comedian or an artist. If God had perceived that our greatest need was
political stability, he would have sent us a politician. If he had perceived
that our greatest need was health, he would have sent us a doctor. But he
perceived our greatest need involved our sin, our alienation from him, our
profound rebellion, our death; and he sent us a Savior.”
-- Donald A. Carson in A Call for Spiritual Reformation