The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!

What we do flows from who we are.

Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.

Some labeled Jerry Falwell an American version of the Ayatollah Khomeni. People for the American Way, a group organized to counter the Moral Majority, launched a slick media campaign attaching the Nazi slur to the religious right.

We Americans think we enjoy self-government. We have all the trappings of self-government, like elections. But in reality, we have gradually lost many of our rights to govern ourselves. We have the form of self-government, but only some of the substance. We are, in a sense, a nation run by a handful of judges who often enforce, not the law, but their personal opinions.

I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.

God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience.