The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves.

Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

A Christian is one who stops working to be saved, not one who stops working!

A church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional liberal churches and more deeply and practically committed to evangelism and conversion than traditional fundamentalist churches. This kind of church is profoundly counter-intuitive to American observers. It breaks their ability to categorize (and dismiss) it as liberal or conservative. Only this kind of church has any chance in the non-Christian west.