The journey begins, though, with understanding what it means to be a christian. To say you believe in Jesus apart from conversion in your life completely misses the essence of what it means to follow him. Do not be deceived.

The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever.

A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.

Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads, even when the crowds in our culture - maybe even our churches - turn the other way?

We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No.'

While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.

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