If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

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

Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.

History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally.

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.

Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.