Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.

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

We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.

When God tells us to give extravagantly, we can trust Him to do the same in our lives. And this is really the core issue of it all. Do we trust Him? Do we trust Jesus when He tells us to give radically for the sake of the poor? Do we trust Him to provide for us when we begin using the resources He has given us to provide for others? Do we trust Him to know what is best for our lives, our families, and our financial futures?

Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.

We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking on pornographic websites and scrolling through sexual pictures and videos, we are frauds to the core.