It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.

If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.

If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.

What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.

Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.

At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The way to progress as a Christian is to continually repent and uproot these systems the same way we become Christians, namely by the vivid depiction (and re-depiction) of Christ’s saving work for us, and the abandoning of self-trusting efforts to complete ourselves. We must go back again and again to the gospel of Christ-crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what he did and who we are in him.

Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ.