When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a role. Every Christian has a role.

What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?

Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.

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.

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.

That is part of our critique of some of the charity and service work is that we can still keep relationships at a distance by creating programs that offer services but we don't really create a reconciled community.