People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense.

The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel.

You have to push on both pedals to make the wheels go 'round. Similarly, you need faith in Christ as well as knowledge. The problem is that there are always Christians who want to push one pedal - either knowledge or experience. We need both.

To evangelize properly by delivering the gospel, we need to follow God's agenda.

We live in a time when people are increasingly skittish about evangelism - Christians and non-Christians alike. People are suspicious of evangelism, and misunderstand it, which contributes to our reluctance to share the gospel. When you add our fear of others' reactions as well as our natural laziness to the equation, it's not hard to see why we make such little progress in sharing our faith.

Humility is not an 'added extra,' one of the lesser Christian virtues. If you don't have humility, you may be lost.

A church is not a Fortune 500 company. It's not simply another nonprofit organization, nor is it a social club. In fact, a healthy church is unlike any organization that man has ever devised, because man didn't devise it.