To imagine things other than they are is the essence of hope. It is also the stuff of revolution.

God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business.

Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.

I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here.

It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For?, 1989 Jesus pioneered a relationship ethic based on compassion. Being a disciple means building relationships - with the Creator and with all creation and creatures.

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

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