I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history.

Conservative evangelicals don't want government support for our faith, because we believe God created all consciences free and a state-coerced act of worship isn't acceptable to God. Moreover, we believe the gospel isn't in need of state endorsement or assistance. Wall Street may need government bailouts but the Damascus Road never does.

The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.

We have to be the people who stand up and say look, vigilance is good and prudence is good. But a kind of irrational fear that leads itself to demagogic rhetoric is something that we have to say no - no, we're not going to go there.

I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.

I heard someone say that concern over the [Confederate] Flag is sensitivity to micro-aggressions, to which my response is to say that kidnapping and enslaving people, breaking up families, terrorizing families, if that's not a macro-aggression, I don't know what is.

An 'almost gospel' doesn't raise a corpse.