We're going to fellowship in eternity. We know that because that's all who's going to be there - is believers. What does God want us to do here? Practice - learning how to love, learning how to fellowship here.

If you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them.

My hermeneutics is when I see verses in Scripture that are "apparent" contradictions - I don't believe they are contradictions - I believe them both. I believe them both. I believe take up your cross and deny yourself and follow me, and I believe come unto me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. They are different sides of the same thing.

Some people are going to have to die or leave.

We're going to worship in eternity. So what does God want me to do while we're here on earth? Practice. Practice worshipping.

Any time you get serious about using your life the way God wants you to use it, there are going to be people who oppose it.

A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.