The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.

Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.

If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were gone? And if the community did even notice would they say 'we are really glad they are gone', or 'we are really going to miss them'?

If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God.

The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.