You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

I think my idea of God was much more directive than my idea of God now, that is, a God who had one plan in mind for me, perhaps, and my job was to find out what it was and obey.

There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.

When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.