When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private.

How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship

Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.

The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.

A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask the hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.