“Popular fundamentalist theology has often emphasized the utlity of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it. The saved man’s relation to Christ has been made contractual instead of personal. The ‘work’ of Christ has been stressed until it has eclipsed the person of Christ. Substitution has been allowed to supercede identification. What He did for me seems to be more important than what He is to me. Redemption is seen as an across-the-counter transaction which we ‘accept’ and the whole thing lacks emotional content.”
-A.W. Tozer, Born After Midnight