We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.

Whereas disinfecting Christians involves isolating them and teaching them to be good, discipling Christians involves propelling Christians into the world to risk their lives for the sake of others. Now the world is our focus, and we gauge success in the church not on the hundreds or thousands whom we can get into our buildings but on the hundreds or thousands who are leaving our buildings to take on the world with the disciples they are making

What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

May even the concept of unreached peoples be totally intolerable to us.

He (Jesus) came so that we might receive new life through supernatural regeneration.

Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach.