The world will awaken to the first half of the gospel when our churches awaken to the second half of the gospel.
The church must be in its smallest dimension what it aspires to become in its largest expression.
Two divided groups or bodies or persons become one not by coming together but by beholding “his own body on the cross.”
In the beginning there was no puzzle; only a seamless creation—the presence of God, the union of man and woman, the harmony of creatures and the peace of the created order.
Grace is the infectious, transforming embrace of God. For grace to be understood, received and appropriated by people, it must come through persons.
Grace means God has done for us what we could not do for ourselves—which is to raise us from death to life.
Beware of interpreters and teachers who boast of cracking some kind of secret spiritual code when it comes to the Bible.
Rather than allowing our experience (or lack thereof) to lead us to doubt God’s Word, we can stand firmly on the veracity of God’s Word and allow its authority to question our experience.
Seekers may be people who are lost and searching for God; however, the Bible seems to identify the most earnest seekers as those who already know Jesus.
God’s plan is not for my life. My life is for God’s plan.
Salvation isn’t a one-time transaction in a ledger in the sky, but the unending full faith and credit of every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
