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 YanceyWe preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has the same drawing power. And for the truly needy, words alone don't satisfy; "A hungry person has no ears," as one relief worker told me. A skeptical world judges the truth of what we say by the proof of how we live.
Philip YanceyFor me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.
Philip Yancey