We don't actually have rich and poor together instead we have a family. What does it mean? If you have resources, you hold them with open hands. The mark of the early church was that they began sharing and it said there were no needy persons among them. They ended poverty as they created this new loving community.

Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate.

When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not because they've thrown out their faith, but it's because of their faith they can't reconcile the death penalty with Jesus and their commitment to Jesus.

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.

There are some Christians who totally disengage from politics and set their minds on heaven so much that their faith is so heavenly minded that it is no earthly good.

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

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.