Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.
We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.
We're far worse than we ever imagined, and far more loved than we could ever dream.
Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.
Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it
The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He โชrose from the dead.