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.

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.

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

Consumer Christianity is now normative. The consumer Christian is one who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of the church for special occasions, but does not give his or her life and innermost thoughts, feelings, and intentions over to the kingdom of the heavens. Such Christians are not inwardly transformed and not committed to it.