The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship.

Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before.

It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.

God's grace is not limited by any ecclesiastical barriers.

Likewise, the world of action, of politics, is reduced to a conflict of views about how to keep the cycle of production and consumption going. Questions of ultimate purpose are excluded from the public world.

The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.

Live in the kingdom of God in such a way that it provokes questions for which the gospel is the answer.