The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.

Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you.

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.

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.

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

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