Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.

What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness

What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven, there is no basis for discipleship.

Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens is at hand' (Matt 3:2, 4:17, 10:7). This is a call for us to reconsider how we have been approaching our life, in light of the fact that we now, in the presence of Jesus, have the option of living within the surrounding movements of God's eternal purposes, of taking our life into his life.

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