Will You Not Tell me the Facts?

“What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saves me. Have you any good news? That is the question that I ask of you. I know your exhortations will not help me. But if anything has been done to save me, will you not tell me the facts?”

J. Gresham Machen, Christian Faith in the Modern World, 57

(HT: John Fonville)