I was in a fascinating meeting where one man had been in China recently. A Chinese professor has found evidence that Christians reached Western China before 90 AD. Before 90 AD! The idea isn't all that astonishing when we think about it. That's what the disciples thought they were supposed to do! And, I'm sure, the disciples just said, "That's it. Let's go!" And they all wound up dead. But everyone else did too!

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.

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.

I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.

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).