Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.

Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.

There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share. In neighborhoods like ours, the churches provide stability.

There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own.

One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

God doesn't want to change the world without you.