If we reject the Christian answer, we still have the problem. We're going to adopt some alternative, because the questions will not go away, the questions of, "What kind of person am I becoming?" and "What is my role in that?" and so on.

Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus' expense and have nothing more to do with him.

The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with the idea system that Jesus Christ embodied and taught and with a culture of the kingdom of God.

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.