Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.'

As Christ begins to live in us, everything begins to change about us.

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift because it meets our greatest need.

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

When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels.

Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ.

As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven't even heard the gospel, I knew that I needed to make some major changes in my life.