The message of biblical Christianity is 'God loves me so that I might make him- his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness- known among all nations.' Now God is the object of our faith, and Christianity centers around him. We are not the end of the gospel; God is'

The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers

Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy.

As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in the meaningless sea of world religions that actually condemn the human race by exalting our supposed ability to get to God. On the other hand, when you and I realize that we are morally evil, dead in sin and deserving of God's wrath with no way out on our own, we begin to discover our desperation for Christ.

Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.

One of my favorite sights is to look across a room packed with people with their Bibles in their laps, studying who God is and what God has said- after midnight.