Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.

The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.

Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.