A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?

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

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

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.

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.

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