You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.

A church without the broken is a broken church.

To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.

You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.

Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples.

If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.

Barna is correct when he writes, "After fifteen years of diligent digging into the world around me, I have reached several conclusions about the future of the Christian church in America. The central conclusion is that the American church is dying due to lack of strong spiritual leadership. In this time of unprecedented opportunity and plentiful resources, the church is actually losing influence. The primary reason is the lack of leadership. Nothing is more important than leadership."7