The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.

The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.

The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.

If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought.