In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One.

Making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

This is also why it is wrong to treat God as a grand employment agency, a celestial executive searcher to find perfect fits for our perfect gifts. The truth is not that God is finding a place for our gifts but that God has created us and our gifts for a place of his choosing – and we will only be ourselves when we are finally there.

The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.