Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.

The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never achieve through social coercion or governmental action. We serve the world by showing it something that it is not, namely, a place where God is forming a family out of strangers.