Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.

The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.

Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties

You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.

Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.

It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.

Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'