Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.

Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.

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

The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.

The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.

Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership-either of entering into or continuing in fellowship of a denomination or a local church.... Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have not yet decided to follow Christ.

That's the illusion - the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out - and it has affected us in many ways. That's a part of the idea that professing is enough.