Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.

God does not 'love' us without liking us.

Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.

We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.

Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.

The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.