When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus' message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desperately needs to hear.

Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ).

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

If this understanding of the good news of Jesus prevailed among Christians, the belief that Jesus’s message is about how to get somewhere else, you could possibly end up with a world in which millions of people were starving, thirsty, and poor; the earth was being exploited and polluted; disease and despair were everywhere; and Christians weren’t known for doing much about it. If it got bad enough, you might even have people rejecting Jesus because of how his followers lived. That would be tragic.

To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to know God, and they are sick of a system that is hung up on a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the love of God.