As a leader it is your job to protect the missional integrity of the Jesus gathering to which you have been called. It is your responsibility to see to it that the church under your care continues as a gathering of people in process; a place where the curious, the unconvinced, the skeptical, the used-to-believe and the broken, as well as the committed, informed and sold-out come together around Peter's declaration that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Jesus never allowed His theology to get in the way of His ministry.

Jesus did not predict a place. Jesus predicted a people.

Being a sinner does not disqualify you from following Jesus. It's a prerequisite.

Serving people we don't see eye to eye with is the essence of Christianity. Jesus died for a world with which he didn't see eye to eye. If a bakery doesn't want to sell its products to a gay couple, it's their business. Literally. But leave Jesus out of it.

Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.

Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn’t possibly do it without a savior.

Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.

I can't make people fall in love with Jesus, but I can arrange dates.

Jesus did not come to be right. He came to make disciples.

Not the one who knows the most, but the one who loves faithfully and consistently the most, is a true follower of Jesus.

My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.

Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret. ... How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?

Jesus healed people one at a time because God cares about individual people.

Jesus healed people one at a time because God cares about individual people.

If you want to know what Jesus meant by what Jesus said, pay attention to that Jesus did.

If you're a Christian you can't have an "I'm better than" attitude toward anyone because everybody is somebody for whom Jesus died.