Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

Jesus offers himself as God's doorway into the life that is truly life. Confidence in him leads us today, as in other times, to become his apprentices in eternal living. "Those who come though me will be safe," he said. "They will go in and out and find all they need. I have come into their world that they may have life, and life to the fullest.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.

There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.