Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us.

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself

Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.

The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.