The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.

God has made a way of salvation for the lost. Not a way, but the way. And this is the good news - the gospel.

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

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.

God's ultimate concern is not to get you or me from point A to point B along the quickest, easiest, smoothest, clearest route possible. Instead, his ultimate concern is that you and I would know him deeply as we trust him more completely.

Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.

The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams, worldly ideals, worldly values, worldly ambitions, and worldly acclaim, then we must focus our lives on another world.