The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.

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

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

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.

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

Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.