Jesus cannot be just liked. His claims make us either kill him or crown him.

Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it

The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.

Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It 's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God .

To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ.

When the world sees us doing evangelism, they just see us recruiting. When they see us doing justice, they see God's glory.

No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.