And while we stand with conviction and courage, we must live with compassion. Amid a world with massive social needs around us, ranging from desperate poverty and orphan crises and millions of girls being trafficked for sex, to the degradation of marriage and the abortion of babies, we need to speak and act with selfless love on all of these issues.

When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus

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

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.

Instead of imagining all the things we can accomplish, we ask God to do what only he can accomplish. Yes, we work, we plan, we organize, and we create, but we do it all while we fast, while we pray, and while we constantly confess our need for the provision of God.

This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness

God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth