... God. Isn't it time we put aside all excuses, all rationalizations, and give ourselves unreservedly to Christ, the Son of the living God? Isn't it time we quit criticizing and began bearing a cross? 1. Jeffrey McQuain. POWER LANGUAGE (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996). 2. Arthur P. Boers, "Church Growth and the Consumer Church," THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY, Sep./Oct. 92. . 3. Augsberger, Myron S. THE COMMUNICATOR'S COMMENTARY #1 (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1982), p. 257. 4. THE JEWISH HUMOR LIST. 5. Pp. 140-41.