It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.

If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

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

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

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.