God can use even stray, honest comments to bring people to himself.

Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.

For a Christian, our fears about the future are rooted in those places where our will differs from God's will.

Keep going until you get good counsel that is persuasive for you that you should go elsewhere.

If you think that the gospel is all about what we can do, that the practice of it is optional, and that conversion is simply something that anyone can choose at any time, then I'm concerned that you'll think of evangelism as nothing more than a sales job where the prospect is to be won over to sign on the dotted line by praying a prayer, followed by an assurance that he is the proud owner of salvation.

As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.

What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene.