The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created.

Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.

There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.

The poor are not a problem to be solved but a people to join.

The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.