“What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?”

“Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom from our self which enables us to be in positions in which we have neither recognition nor importance, neither power nor visibility, and even experience deprivation, and yet have joy and delight. It is the freedom of knowing that we are not in the center of the universe, not even in the center of our own private universe.”

“In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.”

“Evangelicals now stand among those who are on easiest terms with the world, for they have lost their capacity for dissent.”

“What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?”