You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

When you are part of a megachurch you have no responsibility to anybody else.

Repentance is a realization that what God wants from you and what you want from God are not going to be achieved by doing the same old things, thinking the same old thoughts. Repentance is a decision to follow Jesus Christ and become his pilgrim in the path of peace. Repentance is the most practical of all words and the most practical of all acts. It is a feet-on-the-ground-kind-of-word. It puts a person in touch with the reality that God creates.

Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.

The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.

Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.