We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone.

Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you have not chosen me.” We are not our own; we have been bought with a price. We have no rights, only responsibilities. Following Christ is not our initiative, merely our response, in obedience. Nothing works better to debunk the pretensions of choice than a conviction of calling. Once we have been called, we literally “have no choice.

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.

We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.

Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.

If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt.