God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

We see that the soul is the deepest and the most vital part of the person as a whole. It is often treated as the person, and we actually do this when we talk about "saving our soul."

God does not 'love' us without liking us.

A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their feelings, and think it only right. The will is then left at the mercy of circumstances that evoke feelings. Christian spiritual formation today must squarely confront this fact and overcome it.

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

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

Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.