If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were gone? And if the community did even notice would they say 'we are really glad they are gone', or 'we are really going to miss them'?

If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.

When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.

The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.

All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.

We only fully grasp the gospel when we understand, as Paul did, that we are the worst sinner we know

One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already.