Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

Love is an overarching style of relating to another.

Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear that image as a Body because any one of us taken individually would present an incomplete image, one partly false and always distorted, like a single glass chip hacked from a mirror. But collectively, in all our diversity, we can come together as a community of believers to restore the image of God in the world.

When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.