Sharia, if introduced, would not only jeopardise community relations but also further segregate Muslim communities from the rest of the British public. Every moderate, liberal-minded Muslim like myself would resist the imposition of Sharia in Britain regardless of whether its advocate was a Church of England archbishop or a mullah from the local mosque. --- Dr. Shaaz Mahboob in Hillingdon, Middlesex

The concept of progressive revelation (God teaching his people in many parts and many ways) is a notion quite different from that of progressive religious evolution (man groping in a darkness which becomes gradually less dark). A biblical understanding of progressive revelation does not imply an adverse judgment on any of the biblical material involved at any stage in the process. It is all God's truth, so far as it goes; the only difference is that some parts go further than others.

How do people come to acknowledge the divine-human person of Jesus? The apostolic testimony is necessary, but it does not compel assent. It is only by the Spirit of God that anybody ever confesses that Jesus is the Christ come in the flesh (1 Jn. 4:2)---From "The Letters of John" New Testament Commentaries by John R. W. Stott

A Spirit-filled people. It is incorrect to call the day of Pentecost 'the birthday of the church'. For the church as the people of God goes back at least 4,000 years to Abraham. What happened at Pentecost was that the remnant of God's people became the Spirit-filled body of Christ. --- "The Message of Acts" From The Bible Speaks Today John R.W. Stott