The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.

It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.

Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally.

We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another.

The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless.

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.

It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions is right.