Quotes from Pete Greig

One in five American children are living in poverty, and yet, according to the Barna Research Group, 'half of all adults did nothing at all in the past year to help a poor person' and 'few churches have a serious ministry to the poor.' With such crying needs and such self-absorption among God's people, surely things have never been worse.

It will also challenge attitudes that subjugate women in ways that he himself clearly and consistently redressed.

Greatest theologian of the twentieth century, Karl Barth, said that 'to clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world'.

Archbishop Justin Welby says, the Lord's Prayer is 'simple enough to be memorised by small children, and yet profound enough to sustain a whole lifetime of prayer'.

There's little point in lectio divina without the Holy Spirit's help.

God is mobilising an army, but it is a broken army that marches on its knees.

Our world is waiting for us to love and show God's heart through his powerful presence.

Notions of absolute truth and ultimate authority are fiercely attacked, and the Bible itself is no longer accorded unconditional respect in Western societies.

Start by calling God 'Father' (Luke 11:2). That's the key to prayer.

Christians read the Bible not as a document from history but as a world into which they enter so that God may meet them there.

Waiting on God, according to Scripture, is not a passive, vacuous state but rather an active process of asking, seeking and engaging with his Spirit.

So I'm waiting for God, and God is waiting for me to see if I am really waiting for him, and not just wanting things from him.