If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap.
Philip YanceyMisunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.
Philip YanceyOften, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.
Philip YanceyWhen I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.
Philip YanceyWe should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness.
Philip YanceyThe church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.
Philip Yancey