Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

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

People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.

Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.

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

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.