Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the Christianity I grew up with. Christianity can also be built around joining with the broken sinners and evildoers of our world crying out to God, groaning for grace. That’s the Christianity I have fallen in love with.

Because you can poke someone's eye out legally doesn't mean you should and that it's right. The Bible teaches us a more perfect justice.

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.

The history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene and instead giving in to the very temptations he resisted--power, relevancy, spectacle.

Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.