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

A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.

I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.

That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.