Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.

The proper focus of holiness is not on being set apart from something (i.e., the world), but on being set apart for something.

If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.

The gospel of submission, commitment, decision, and victorious living is not good news about what God has achieved but a demand to save ourselves with God’s help. Besides the fact that Scripture never refers to the gospel as having a personal relationship with Jesus nor defines faith as a decision to ask Jesus to come into our heart, this concept of salvation fails to realize that everyone has a personal relationship with God already: either as a condemned criminal standing before a righteous judge or as a justified coheir with Christ and adopted child of the Father.

God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.

Jesus and spirituality can easily become therapies that merely help us cope with life. They can serve us if we chose Him over other service providers. We even talk about "making Jesus my personal Lord and Savior," as if we could make Him anything!

God’s Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It’s not only descriptive; it’s effective too, God speaking is God acting.