Any Relevance for Today?

He wrote it in 1928 but this quote from E. Stanley Jones is still relevant today. It comes from his book Christ At The Round Table.
"Through pyschoanalysis you may come into the kingdom of the somewhat relieved mind; through social emphases you may come into the kingdom of a better and juster social organization; through education you may come into the kingdom of interesting fact; through systems of mental suggestion you may come into the kingdom of improved health; through self-culture you may come into the kingdom of refinement, but if you come into the kingdom of God, you must be converted. When Jesus, Son of Fact, uses the word 'except' in connection with conversion, there is no exception to that 'except.' The church will never sophisticate itself away from this need of conversion."
Surely no one who has read Jones, the famous Methodist missionary of India in the last century will accuse him of legalistic interpretation of scripture (at least, I would think not). So if he has it right even 'progressive' denominations, local churches, pastors, and laymen & women, have this need to go back to what the Bible teaches to have at the center of their social and political agendas the baseline of scripture teaching. The kingdom of God is through Jesus, and He must be the heart and soul of our actions in this world, and we only know God's truth about Him from the Bible.