Energy-fire experiences take us into ourselves only that we might reach outside of ourselves. Metanoia is a de-centering experience of connected-ness and community. It is not an exercise in reciting what Jesus has done for me lately. Energy-fire ecstasy, more a buzz than a binge, takes us out of ourselves, literally. That is the meaning of the word 'ecstatic.'

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

A billion homo sapiens are added every 11 years to the planet. The hypertrophy of a single species pushes other life-forms out of bed and into extinction. The decline of biological diversity is real and severe. The alarming loss of soil fertility, forest cover, and coral reef viability and the release of fossilized CO2 that nature put away 300 million years ago in its march toward greater diversity - all these "losses" and many others are the result of one life-form annihilating other life-forms in its immoral confusion of "dominion" with "domination."

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.

When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes - 'time to save the world!'

Followers of Jesus don’t so much see different things from anyone else as they see the same things differently.