Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes.

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

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

Our greatest need is not to try harder. Our greatest need is a new heart.

It is impossible to be a follower of Christ while denying, disregarding, discrediting, and disbelieving the words of Christ.

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.

A high view of God’s sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who believe that God’s sovereign over all things will lead Christians to die for the sake of all peoples.