In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn't! It's in the mind - how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It's in our feelings. It's in our body.

If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we're just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.

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

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

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

We renovate the heart by, of course, changing it, but we can't do that, really, without changing the other essential parts of the human personality.

He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a "God government" in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).