... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off; humbly admitting mistakes disarms.

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

We should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness.

Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.

As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)

Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.